Place of Publication: Poltava (Tsarist Russia)| Years of
Publication: 1910-1915 Years available on the website: 1910-1915
Frequency Weekly newspaper Chief editor and publisher: Eliyahu
ʿAqiva Rabinovich (1861–1917) The newspaper Ha-Modia —according
to its subtitle—was an Orthodox Jewish weekly that succeeded the
Orthodox monthly ha-Peles, which had also been published by
Eliyahu ʿAqiva Rabinovich (1861–1917) in Poltava between 1901
and 1905. Each issue of the newspaper usually began with a
signed editorial by Rabinovich, usually relating to internal
Orthodox matters, such as the Council of Orthodox Rabbis,
debates with other newspapers, various Jewish political
movements (in particularly, Zionism), cultural trends (such as
general education), and information about the situation of the
Jews throughout the Russian Empire as seen from an Orthodox
perspective. Rabinovich tended to sign other articles that he
wrote in the same issue as ‘the editor’ or under a pen name, or
sometimes left them unsigned. Rabinovich h