The focus of analysis of the current article is the Yiddish daily Di yidishe shtime published by the Lithuanian Zionist Organization in the interwar period with the aim to understand how and to what extent it reflected important political and ideological directions, the country’s social problems and culture, as well as the integration of the Jewish community at that time. Di yidishe shtime published in Kowno from 1919 till 1940 was one of the most readable and long-lived among the regularly and irregularly published Jewish periodicals. The pages of Di yidishe shtime contained a consistent presentation of Lithuanian life reflecting the state’s politics, the activity of official institutions, as well as social and cultural life. The way the editors of the Di yidishe shtime chose to present the current events and political news, their constant attention to cultural life, and the style and rhetoric of analytical articles allows us to conclude that the newspaper aimed to form Jewish community as a group of citizens interested in everything what happened in the country, and regarded “the Jewish voice” as a form of expression of Lithuanian citizens differing only in their ethnic origin and language.
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