Le Journal de Salonique explained

Type:Biweekly newspaper
Founder:Sadi Levy
Foundation:7 November 1895
Language:French
Ceased Publication:1911
Headquarters:Thessaloniki
Sister Newspapers:La Epoca
Oclc:829692359

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

Le Journal de Salonique was launched by Sadi Levy in Thessaloniki in 1895,[1] and its first issue appeared on 7 November 1895. 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. It conveyed news related to all ethnic and religious groups living in the city,[2] 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.[3] The paper and its sister publication La Epoca both folded in 1911.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Malte Fuhrmann. Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire. 2020. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 9781108769716. 239–240. 10.1017/9781108769716. 225118882.
  2. Book: Marco Folin. Heleni Porfyriou. Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World. 2. Routledge. 2020. 978-1-000-17565-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=-K7uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70. New York. 70. Yannis Sygkelos. Ottoman Banal Cosmopolitanism.
  3. Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Creating a Taste for News: Historicizing Judeo-Spanish Periodicals of the Ottoman Empire. Jewish History. 2000. 14. 1. 10.1023/A:1007103614994. 25. 150604807 . Sarah Abrevaya Stein.
  4. Book: Olga Borovaya. Sheila E. Jelen. Michael P. Kramer. L. Scott Lerner. Modern Jewish Literatures. 2011. University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia, PA. 10.9783/9780812204360-006. 84–85. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204360-006. Shmuel Saadi Halevy/Sam Lévy Between Ladino and French: Reconstructing a Writer's Social Identity.