The _Dyen_ ("The Day") [1] was able to muster a larger number of contributors from among the increased ranks of the "titled" _intelligenzia_ than its predecessors.

The new periodical was bolder in unfurling the banner of emancipation, but it also went much further than its predecessors in its championship of Russification and assimilation.
The motto of the _Dyen_ was "complete fusion of the interests of the Jewish population with those of the other citizens." The editors looked upon the Jewish problem "not as a national but as a social and economic" issue, which in their opinion could be solved simply by bestowing upon this "section of the Russian people" the same rights which were enjoyed by the rest.

The Odessa pogrom of 1871 might have taught the writers of the _Dyen_ to judge more soberly the prospects of "a fusion of interests," had not a meddlesome censorship forced this periodical to discontinue its publication after a short time.
[Footnote 1: The name was meant to symbolize the approaching day of freedom.

It was a weekly publication.] The next few years were a period of silence in the Russian-Jewish press.

[1] The rank and file of the Russian Jewish intellectuals, who formed the backbone of the reading public of this press, became indifferent to it.