Dav (journal)

Dav (based on the initials of the first names of Daniel Okáli, Andrej Sirácky, and Vladimír Clementis) was a leftist journal published between 1924 and 1937 with intervals in Prague and then in Bratislava by the group Davisti.

DAV included important Slovak writers, poets and cultural workers, scientists and philosophers, politicians and lawyers, literary critics and graphic designers and visual artists like Ladislav Novomeský, Ján Poničan, Peter Jilemnický, Andrej Bagar, Jozef Tomášik-Dumín, Jarko Elen, Fraňo Kráľ, Andrej Siracký, Ladislav Szántó, Gustáv Husák, Vladimir Clementis, Eduard Urx, Daniel Okáli, Alexander Matuška, Ľudovít Fulla, Mikuláš Galanda and others.

Revue was also a mediator of books by socialist writers (especially poets) like Ján Rob Poničan (Som, Dva svety), Jiří Wolker (Večer, Sborník proletárskych básní), Laco Novomeský (Nedeľa) and others.

After the outbreak of the economic crisis in the 1930s, the authors of the DAV mediated demonstrations, protests and all popular actions against the government to point out the contradictions of interwar Czechoslovakia.

DAV supported internationalism on the one hand, and too equality between Slovaks and Czechs (in the first period they stood in radical opposition to conservatism; later they found their own concept of national continuity with the social progressive movements of the past).

DAV dedicated to this event the all issue of the journal and organized the Manifesto of Slovak Writers (they were also signed by E. B. Lukáč, J. G. Tajovský, M. Urban, J. Smrek and G. Vámoš).

[5] In the 21st century, M. Habaj,[6] K. Csiba,[7] P. Kerecman,[8] D. Hajko, J. Lysý, J. Leikert, L. Perný, M. Krno, M. Gešper, E. Chmelár,[9] J. Migašová,[10] J. Baer[11] and others devoted their texts to the reflection of DAV.