I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And I'm Naor Menninger.

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

This podcast is made in collaboration with the Jewish Journal.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day,

and the entire Western world mourned for the six million souls that perished. But what is

often missed is the fact that the Nazis didn't only murder the people. They murdered whole

parts of the Jewish culture that thrived in Europe for many centuries. They destroyed hundreds

of newspapers and obliterated whole libraries.

They murdered a language, Yiddish.

And indeed, before World War II, Jewish culture in Europe was extremely vibrant,

with an endless stream of theater, books, and newspapers.

Literally hundreds of newspapers were published throughout Europe and America,

in Yiddish, in Hebrew, and in the local languages. The people of the book were obviously obsessed

with ink and paper, and it showed. Most of these publishings didn't make it through the war,

but some survived. One of those was Oikelet, a Hungarian-Romanian

newspaper founded 100 years ago. The history of this paper is a long one, but the interesting part

is how the paper nearly went bankrupt a few years back, right when Christoph Steiner entered the story.

Christoph is a Hungarian part Jewish model and TV celebrity.

He's been living in Israel for the past 10 years, and when he heard about the state of

Oikelt, he decided he simply couldn't let the paper die.

What happened next is absolutely incredible.

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