The Polish state in the interwar period was a multinational country in which about 34% of its inhabitants declared non-Polish nationality. The ethnic divisions were enhanced with a religious and cultural mosaic. It was also related to the great linguistic diversity of the population of the Second Polish Republic which implied the emergence of autonomous press subsystems. They were very well developed in the Second Polish Republic.

According to the latest research, the total number of periodicals published by national minorities in the years 1918–1939 exceeded 3,500. The press of the three largest nations – Jews, Ukrainians and Germans – were the most numerous. The segment of Jewish magazines totaled 1,715 titles compared to 1,132 of Ukrainian papers. Almost 400 Jewish magazines were published not in Yiddish or Hebrew, but in Polish.

Based on scientific research, scientists know that the success of journals is not due to their number, but to their circulation and the key issue – readership. Interestingly, among the national minorities of the Second Polish Republic, the readership was the highest among the Germans: 12.7 copies of the daily newspaper per 100 people followed by the Jewish community – 10. For comparison, the readership among Ukrainians was 0.6 copies, and among Belarusians, it was close to zero.

Warsaw was the largest Polish center of the Jewish press, where about 30-40% of Jewish titles (about 682) were published, including about 40-45 dailies. In 1938, they printed 196,000. copies, i.e. about 20% of the capital’s newspaper circulation. The main Jewish dailies published in Yiddish were “Der Moment”, “Hajnt” and “Nasz Przegląd” in Polish. The first two dailies competed strongly with each other.

Especially “Political Letters”, a permanent column edited by Mosze Justman, aka B. Juszson, were very popular in “Hajnt”. According to Marian Fuks, a leading researcher of the Jewish press in the 1970s, Justman argued with the editor-in-chief of Der Moment and joined the Hajnt, attracting thousands of readers.

Der Moment was considered the most modern among Jewish newspapers. Its editorial office was equipped with new generation rotary machines and linotypes. The weekly circulation of the magazine ranged between 40 and 60.000 copies, and the weekend editions had a circulation of nearly 90.000. When the newspaper described the famous case of Menachem Mendel Bejlis, the circulation was over one hundred and fifty thousand copies.

The last issues of both dailies were published on September 23, 1939.