 Cover page of Le Journal de Salonique date 29 April 1909 | |
| Type | Biweekly newspaper |
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| Founder(s) | Sadi Levy |
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| Editor |
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| Founded | 7 November 1895 |
| Language | French |
| Ceased publication | 1911 |
| Headquarters | Thessaloniki |
| Country | Ottoman Empire |
| Sister newspapers | La Epoca |
| OCLC number | 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.
History and profile
Le Journal de Salonique was launched by Sadi Levy in Thessaloniki in 1895, and its first issue appeared on 7 November 1895. He was also founder and publisher of La Epoca, a Ladino newspaper. In the first issue Le Journal de Salonique stated its goal as to improve the region. The paper came out biweekly. It conveyed news related to all ethnic and religious groups living in the city, and its title page contained Gregorian, Julian, and Hijri dates, but not the Hebrew calendar. Because although its founder and publisher was a Jew, it did not describe itself as a Jewish newspaper during the early period. The paper serialized novels mostly written by French authors. 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.
The editor-in-chief of the paper was first Vitalis Cohen who was succeeded by Samuel Levy, a son of Sadi Levy. Le Journal de Salonique managed to have nearly 1,000 subscribers. The paper and its sister publication La Epoca both folded in 1911.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- 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.
External links
Media related to Journal de Salonique at Wikimedia Commons
- 1895 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
- 1911 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire
- Defunct biweekly newspapers
- Defunct newspapers published in the Ottoman Empire
- Defunct French-language newspapers published in Europe
- Newspapers published in Thessaloniki
- Newspapers established in 1895
- Publications disestablished in 1911