---
title: کاوه (Kaveh), no. 1, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 24 January 1916
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kaveh-berlin-first-issue-1916/
description: Front page of the first issue of Kaveh, a Persian-language fortnightly printed in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime Persian-language nationalist newspaper front page with an illustration of armed men behind a banner; no graphic content. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![کاوه (Kaveh), no. 1, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 24 January 1916](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kaveh-berlin-first-issue-1916.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kaveh-berlin-first-issue-1916.jpg)

# کاوه (Kaveh), no. 1, Berlin-Charlottenburg, 24 January 1916

Front page of the first issue of Kaveh, a Persian-language fortnightly printed in Berlin-Charlottenburg. A signed line drawing by B. Richter shows armed men rallying behind a raised banner, under a masthead named for Kaveh the blacksmith of the Shahnameh, and the lead article opens with a couplet from Ferdowsi about casting off Zahhak's yoke. The tell is the borrowed symbol: a national legend is pasted onto a wartime political appeal addressed to Persian readers.

## Text on the object

Original (Persian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
شماره ۱
سال نخستین

[Illustration signed: B. Richter]

کاوه
۱۳۳۴

این روزنامه هر دوهفته یکبار نشر میشود
عنوان مراسلات
Redaktion Kaveh:
Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Leibnizstr. 64

قیمت اشتراک سالیانه در ایران یک تومان
در سایر ممالک پنج فرانک

دوشنبه ۱۵ شهر یورماه قدیم ۱۲۸۵ یزدگردی = ۱۸ ربیع الاول ۱۳۳۴ هجری = ۲۴ ژانویه ۱۹۱۶

آغاز

کسی کو هوای فریدون کند  سر از بند ضحاک بیرون کند

در یک زمان فوق‌العاده تاریخی دنیا هستیم که عظمت و اهمیت آن [illegible] ... [remainder of the two columns not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
No. 1
First year

[Illustration signed: B. Richter]

Kaveh
1334

This newspaper is published once every two weeks
Address for correspondence
Redaktion Kaveh:
Berlin-Charlottenburg,
Leibnizstr. 64

Annual subscription in Iran one toman
In other countries five francs

Monday 15 of the month Yurmah (old style) 1285 Yazdegerdi = 18 Rabi' al-awwal 1334 Hijri = 24 January 1916

Beginning

Whoever longs for Fereydun will draw his head out of Zahhak's bond

We are living in an extraordinarily historic time of the world, whose greatness and importance [illegible] ... [remainder of the two columns not transcribed]
```

Masthead, price and address block, date line, section heading and verse are transcribed; only the first clause of the lead article is given and the two text columns beneath are otherwise not transcribed. Translation is literal, machine-made and not checked by a fluent reader.

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