In Russia no periodical appeared until Zederbaum issued his supplement, _Kol-mewasser_, to the _Hameliz_ in 1863. This weekly was not only a gazette of political news, but also a literary magazine which, as we have seen, has fostered the Judeo-German literature and has made it possible for Abramowitsch and Linetzki to develop themselves. In 1871 its life was cut short. In 1867 a short-lived attempt was made in Warsaw to issue a weekly, _Die Warschauer jüdische Zeitung_, which followed closely the precedent set by the _Kol-mewasser_. Many of the contributors to the older magazine have written articles for the same. For some reason, emanating mainly from the censor, no periodical in Judeo-German was published in Russia during the seventies. The Jews were, however, not entirely without reading matter of that class, for at different times magazines and gazettes were issued for them abroad. The first of the kind was the _Jisrulik_, which appeared in Lemberg in 1875 under the joint editorship of Linetzki and Goldfaden. This differed from its predecessors in so far as it made the literary part the most important division in its columns. Most of the matter was furnished by the editors themselves, or rather by Linetzki alone, for Goldfaden's name does not figure upon it after the first few numbers. In less than half a year, the _Jisrulik_ was discontinued. From 1877 up to 1881 Brüll issued in Mainz a weekly, _Hajisroeli_, devoted to the interests of the Russian Jews. Upon its pages one may now and then find the names of some of the older writers, but on the whole it seems to have been only in distant contact with its countrymen at home. Another weekly of the same character was started in 1880 under the name of _Kol-leom_ in Königsberg. Only the next year Zederbaum succeeded in obtaining the Government's permission for his _Volksblatt_, which appeared uninterruptedly until 1889, some time after its chief contributors, Spektor and Rabinowitsch had discontinued their connection with it and had started annuals of their own. Since then, several new ones, all of them of very short duration, have seen daylight. At the moment of writing this, permission has been granted by the Russian government to a Zionistic society, in Warsaw, to publish a magazine under the name of _Bas-kol_. There has been a steady progress in the periodical press, such as could be expected under the tantalizing restrictions attendant on a Judeo-German press in Russia. The _Volksblatt_ is both quantitatively and qualitatively an improvement over the _Kol-mewasser_, which in its turn is far superior to the gazettes preceding it. The _Hausfreund_ and the _Volksbibliothēk_, _Dās hēilige Land_, and _Die Jüdische Bibliothēk_ are all more systematic, more in accord with the modern form of periodicals, than the _Volksblatt_.