The initiative to start publishing Naye Prese was taken by a sector of Jewish members of the French Communist Party.
Prior to the founding of Naye Prese there had been other Yiddish-language communist periodicals which had been banned by the French state authorities.
[1] Naye Prese was one of two daily Yiddish newspapers published in Paris during the interbellum period, the other being the pro-Zionist Parizer Haynt.
[2] The Jewish membership of the French Communist Party was rather limited, numbering around 200–300 at the time of the founding of Naye Prese.
In 1936, after an intensive election campaign of the French Communist Party amongst the Jewish communities and the formation of the Popular Front government, the readership reached 20,000.