Uj Kelet

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Uj Kelet (Hungarian translation:"New East") is a Zionist newspaper in the Hungarian language which first appeared in Kolozsvār (Kluj), Transylvania, and was later revived in Tel Aviv.

On the initiative of Chajjim Weiszburg, a leader of the Zionist movement, Uj Kelet was launched as a weekly on December 19, 1918. It become a daily in 1920. The first editor was Bēla Szēkely, who was succeeded in 1919 by E. Marton.

From 1927 until the end of its Transylvanian period, the responsible editor was Ferenc Jāmbor. After the Hungarian annexation of Kolozsvār in 1940, the Fascist regime banned the paper because of its strong Zionist line. Marton emigrated to Erez Israel after World War II, and in 1948 the paper reappeared under his editorship in Tel Aviv.

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