Der shtern (Yiddish: דער שטערן, 'The Star') was a Yiddish language daily newspaper published from Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR between 1925 and 1941. It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Council of Trade Unions. M. Levitan served as editor in chief of the newspaper. As of January 1928, Der Shtern had a circulation of 9,500 copies, by January 1929 12,600 and by January 1930 the publication had a circulation of 16,700 copies. By the late 1930s Der shtern was one of very few remaining Yiddish newspapers in the Soviet Union.