[3] It is considered by Sol Liptzin and others to be the most important early Yiddish-language periodical (although by no means the first: the short-lived Die Kuranten in Amsterdam predated it by centuries).
[1] Founded by Alexander Zederbaum as a supplement to his Hebrew-language weekly Ha-Melitz, during its last three years Kol Mevasser functioned independently.
Coverage included events both in the Jewish and gentile world, and extended to science, education, history, geography, and literature.
It ran biographies of famous rabbis, reviewed Yiddish writers such as Israel Aksenfeld, Solomon Ettinger, and A.
It published the first Yiddish-language fiction of Mendele Mocher Sforim, a novella called Dos kleine mentshele (The Little Man), with the first installment appearing in November 1863.