Plotke = Gossip !
I believe IPA (JPA) was a funny paraphrasing of the important JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency ) founded already in 1917 !
So, IPA is 100 years old, at least.
A testimony from Transnistria:
"There was no radio or newspaper but there was a lot of news agencies, such as the Y.P.A. "Yiddishe Plotke Agentur," (Jewish Gossip Agency) or the Y. V. A.. "Yiden Vilen Azoi" (Jewish Wish Agency) and others. The news were usually the type of forecasting disasters as well as that which gave hope for better times. After the Stalingrad defeat of the Germans, information which reached us with some delay, has added to the forecasts of the Agencies some optimistic news. Before Stalingrad most of the news were with a pessimistic news."
From:
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lipkany/lip002.html
About JTA :
https://www.jta.org/about-us/jta-history
Best Hanukkah wishes to All!
Irene
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From: bounce-122138608-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-122138608-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Berti Glaubach
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 12:35 PM
Cc: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] IPA (Yiddishe Plotkes Agentur)
IPA (Idische PLotke Agentur) and IWA (Iden Willen Azoi) existed only as ironical names for so called News that were given from mouth to ear during the war for either normal bad events that happened or still had to come, IPA, or wishful thinking for hope and defeat of the Germans and their allies IWA. I and not Y because there is no Y in Y(idish).
And of course everybody knew that the "news" had to be taken with a big grain of salt!!
Sorry, but all this was only about rumors during the war mainly in the Jewish population - no written news. And of course no real Agency, Jewish or not)
Except that in a certain way everybody, everywhere is still exposed to XPA and XWA -X taking values for the name of any people in the World.
[Berti Gladbach]
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Iris AlRoy <mermamma_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> --001a114fb3e2577c3a05607ed76e
>
>
> Hi everyone, and Happy Chanukah!
> In reading an article by Anny Mater, I noticed she mentioned this
> agency several times, calling it the "Jewish Rumor Agency" or "Jieden willen Azoi"
> Anny's Story:
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/stories/matar/matar-russ.html
>
> This interests me, and in searching ehpes I saw a few emails referencing it:
>
> HARDY BREIER (2014) calls it "Jewish Gossip Agency. The most
> unreliable news agency in the world."
>
> Hardy Breir (2011) referenced it as "War was in the air. IPA was
> positive on this (that is the Jewish Plotke Agentur).
>
> I'm wondering where I can find more information on this agency - if I
> understand correctly, they had different chapters? Were they only in
> Czernowitz, or in many communities? And why is the acronym "IPA" if
> the name was Yiddishe Plotke Agentur?
>
> Did it morph into a different agency after the war? Did this or these
> groups have interaction with the World Jewish Congress?
>
> To find more information, should I search for terms like "Jewish
> underground news agencies holocaust"? Are there more keywords that
> might help me?
>
>
> Thank you all!
>
>
>
> *---*
>
> Iris AlRoy
>
> mermamma at gmail.com
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