[1][2] It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions.

[3] Der shtern replaced Komunistishe fon as the main Yiddish newspaper in Soviet Ukraine.

[6] In its initial phase Der shtern was the largest Yiddish newspaper in the Soviet Union, as well.

[7] It was printed around 12,000 copies, a larger number than that of the Moscow-based Der emes and the Minsk-based Oktyabr combined.

[9] By the late 1930s Der shtern was one of very few remaining Yiddish newspapers in the Soviet Union.