Israël (magazine)

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Israël
Editor
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderAlbert Mosseri
Founded1920
First issue2 April 1920
Final issue1939
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
Language

Israël was a trilingual weekly Zionist magazine which was headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. It existed between 1920 and 1939 and was published in three language editions: Arabic, French and Hebrew.

History and profile

Israël was established by Albert Mosseri in Cairo in 1920.[1][2] It was the official media outlet of Ha Shomer ha Zair, a Jewish organization.[3] The magazine had three language editions, Arabic, French and Hebrew all which were started on 2 April 1920.[4] Albert Mosseri also edited the French edition of the magazine until his death in 1933.[1][4] His assistant editors were Albert Staraselski and Joseph Mosseri.[4] The Arabic edition was edited by three different individuals, Murad Faraj, Yousef Manufla and Saad Yaqub Maliki.[4] Mathilde Mosseri, wife of Albert Mosseri, edited the Hebrew edition together with Yehoshua Kantrovich.[4] Following the death of her husband Mathilde Mosseri edited the French edition of magazine in the period 1933–1939.[1] Israël was published on a weekly basis.[4] As of 1920 the magazine was distributed to several regions, including Palestine, Damascus, Beirut, Paris, Baghdad, Cyprus, Basra, Brussels, England and Thessaloniki.[1] Due to tensions about the Palestine issue the magazine was banned in Iraq in September 1933.[5] The Hebrew edition of the magazine was closed down in 1923, and its Arabic edition ceased publication in 1933.[1][3] The French edition was folded in 1939.[2][3] The magazine had an explicitly Zionist editorial line.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lital Levy (Fall 2008). "Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the "Mashriq"". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 98 (4): 467.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dario Miccoli (Spring–Summer 2016). "A Fragile Cradle: Writing Jewishness, Nationhood, and Modernity in Cairo, 1920–1940". Jewish Social Studies. 21 (3): 6, 10. doi:10.2979/JEWISOCISTUD.21.3.01. hdl:10278/3666577. S2CID 156205187.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bat Ye'or (1977). "Zionism in Islamic lands: The case of Egypt" (PDF). Wiener Library Bulletin. XXX (43–44): 21.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Reuven Snir (2006). "Arabic in the Service of Regeneration of Jews: The Participation of Jews in Arabic Press and Journalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 59 (3): 300. doi:10.1556/AORIENT.59.2006.3.2.
  5. ↑ Reuven Snir (2007). ""Mosaic Arabs" between Total and Conditioned Arabization: The Participation of Jews in Arabic Press and Journalism in Muslim Societies during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 27 (2): 270. doi:10.1080/13602000701536208. S2CID 144479547.
  6. ↑ Mansour Abdel Wahab (2015). "الحالة الثقافية للطائفة اليهودية فى مصر ما بين الانتماء والبحث عن الذات". Al-Ahram (in العربية). Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2021.

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