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Der Yid () is a nonprofit New York–based Yiddish weekly newspaper, founded in 1953. The newspaper is published by Der Yid Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is widely read within the broader Yiddish-speaking Haredi Judaism community. It uses a Yiddish dialect common to Satmar Hasidim, as opposed to "YIVO Yiddish", which is standard in secular and academic circles.
Religiously observant, Rosmarin had run columns on the biographies of rabbis and Jewish customs while working for The Morning Journal. Under his influence, Der Yid was considered more sympathetic to Haredi Judaism than the other major Yiddish newspapers of the time. The first editor of Der Yid was the writer Uriel Zimmer, publisher of an anti-Zionist tract.
In 1955, during a Satmar protest at the Manhattan Center against the establishment of a night club in Jerusalem, the Krasna Rav, Hillel Lichtenstein, publicly tore up a copy of Der Morgn-Zhurnal as a sign of disapproval of its pro-Zionist stance. Rosmarin responded with applause. He eventually sold Der Yid to activist leaders of the Satmar community, including Sender Deutsch, Botsina Kadisha (in Hebrew) volume 2, p. 258, memoirs by Sender Deutsch who became editor-in-chief. Deutsch was the newspaper's publisher for 19 years until he started publishing the Yiddish daily Yiddische Zeitung in 1971.
Joel Teitelbaum, the rebbe of Satmar, became the paper's guiding voice, firmly establishing Der Yid as a Haredi Judaism and anti-Zionist newspaper. He once approved an appeal for financial contributions to the newspaper on the night of Yom Kippur, as a counterweight to pro-Zionist financial appeals that were commonly held on Yom Kippur.
In 1972, the paper was revamped by Chaim Moshe Stauber as a weekly newspaper carrying world news.
In the late 2010s, Der Yid had a circulation of between 55,000 and 80,000.
The community of Aaron Teitelbaum, Zalman's older brother, publishes a similar Yiddish newspaper, Der Blatt.
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