Le Journal de Salonique

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Le Journal de Salonique
Cover page of Le Journal de Salonique date 29 April 1909
TypeBiweekly newspaper
Founder(s)Sadi Levy
Publisher
  • Sadi Levy
  • Samuel Levy
Editor
  • Vitalis Cohen
  • Samuel Levy
Founded7 November 1895
LanguageFrench
Ceased publication1911
HeadquartersThessaloniki
CountryOttoman Empire
Sister newspapersLa Epoca
OCLC number829692359
Sadi Levi, founder of Le Journal de Salonique

Le Journal de Salonique was a biweekly newspaper published between 1895 and 1911 in Thessaloniki⁩, Ottoman Empire. It was the longest running French newspaper published in the city.[1]

History and profile[edit]

Le Journal de Salonique was launched by Sadi Levy in Thessaloniki in 1895,[1] and its first issue appeared on 7 November 1895.[2] He was also founder and publisher of La Epoca, a Ladino newspaper.[1] In the first issue Le Journal de Salonique stated its goal as to improve the region.[1] The paper came out biweekly.[2] It conveyed news related to all ethnic and religious groups living in the city,[3] and its title page contained Gregorian, Julian, and Hijri dates, but not the Hebrew calendar.[1] Because although its founder and publisher was a Jew, it did not describe itself as a Jewish newspaper during the early period.[1] The paper serialized novels mostly written by French authors.[1] The work by only three non-French novelists, Greek Kostis Palamas, Polish Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Austrian Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, was published in the paper.[1]

The editor-in-chief of the paper was first Vitalis Cohen who was succeeded by Samuel Levy, a son of Sadi Levy.[1] Le Journal de Salonique managed to have nearly 1,000 subscribers.[4] The paper and its sister publication La Epoca both folded in 1911.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Malte Fuhrmann (2020). Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 239–240. doi:10.1017/9781108769716. ISBN 9781108769716. S2CID 225118882.
  2. ^ a b c Olga Borovaya (2011). "Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity". In Sheila E. Jelen; Michael P. Kramer; L. Scott Lerner (eds.). Modern Jewish Literatures. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 84–85. doi:10.9783/9780812204360-006.
  3. ^ Yannis Sygkelos (2020). "Ottoman Banal Cosmopolitanism". In Marco Folin; Heleni Porfyriou (eds.). Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-000-17565-3.
  4. ^ Sarah Abrevaya Stein (2000). "Creating a Taste for News: Historicizing Judeo-Spanish Periodicals of the Ottoman Empire". Jewish History. 14 (1): 25. doi:10.1023/A:1007103614994. S2CID 150604807.

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