Le Réveil juif

Le Réveil juif
Type Weekly newspaper
Founder(s) Félix Allouche
Editor-in-chief Henri Maarek, Elie Louzon
Founded 1924
Political alignment Revisionist Zionist
Language French language
Ceased publication 1940
Headquarters Sfax, later Tunis

Le Réveil juif ('Jewish Awakening') was a French language Revisionist Zionist weekly newspaper published from Sfax, Tunisia.[1][2]

History and profile

Le Réveil juif was founded in September 1924 by Félix Allouche.[3][4] Issued on Fridays, it contained four pages.[4]

It was one of the most important Zionist newspapers in North Africa and in Tunisia.[3][5] These publications were a platform for the Jewish society to discuss their political and social views.[5] They were also essential in the relationships between Jews, French people and Muslims.[5]

The paper was distributed across Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Metropolitan France.[6] Henri Maarek and Elie Louzon served as editors-in-chief of the newspaper and its editing managers were Michel Loffreda, Jacques Taieb and Maurice Sitbon.[4] A right-wing revisionist Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky published a series of articles in the weekly in 1928.[7]

The publishing of Le Réveil juif was shifted to Tunis in the mid-1930s.[8]

Le Réveil juif, as well as other Jewish publications in Tunisia, was suppressed by the Vichy regime in October 1940.[9]

References

  1. Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 469
  2. Laskier, Michael M. North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. New York, NY [u.a.]: New York Univ. Press, 1994. p. 41
  3. 1 2 Parfitt, Tudor. Israel and Ishmael: Studies in Muslim Jewish Relations. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. p. 113
  4. 1 2 3 Mohsen Hamli. Le Réveil Juif (Sfax). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2012
  5. 1 2 3 Reeva S. Simon; Michael M. Laskier; Sara Reguer (2003). The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. Columbia University Press. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-231-10797-6. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  6. Lerman, Antony. The Jewish Communities of the World : a Contemporary Guide. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press in association with the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1989. p. 159
  7. Baruch Kimmerling (4 June 2010). Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies. Columbia University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-231-14329-5. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  8. Houtsma, M. Th. E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936. New York: E.J. Brill, 1987. p. 868
  9. Gottreich, Emily. Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2010. p. 310
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