%0 Journal Article %T Ershte Yudishe Shakh-Tsaytung and Ershte Yudishe Sport-Tsaytung: The First Yiddish Sports Magazines Published in Łódź and Their Contents %A Łagodzińska-Pietras, Anna %J Studia Judaica %V 2022 %R 10.4467/24500100STJ.22.004.16298 %N Issue 1 (49) %P 107-132 %K Łódź, press, sport, chess, Yiddish, Arthur Szyk, Moshe Broderzon, David Frishman, Zionism %@ 1506-9729 %D 2022 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/erszte-judisze-szach-cajtung-i-erszte-judisze-sport-cajtung-pierwsze-jidyszowe-czasopisma-sportowe-wydawane-w-lodzi-i-ich-zawartosc %X The main purpose of the article is to broaden the state of knowledge about Yiddish press published in Łódź. The author focuses on two periodicals dedicated to sport: Ershte Yudishe Shakh-Tsaytung and Ershte Yudishe Sport- Tsaytung that were issued in 1913 and 1914. They were considered as missing and ephemeral with no important contribution to the history of Polish Jews. The analysis of two inconspicuous magazines leads to the conclusion that expands research in the field of press or biography studies, revealing interesting information especially about the milieu of people gathered around the widely defined cultural life in Łódź, adding some unknown facts about Arthur Szyk, Moshe Broderzon or David Frishman, and enriching knowledge about the formative processes in the Jewish cultural life in the city. FUNDING The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research project „Prasa żydowska w Łodzi: „(Lodzer/Najer) Folksblat” 1915–1939” (Narodowe Centrum Nauki, grant no 2016/21/N/HS3/0087).