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Weekly newspaper in the Ottoman Empire (1871–1912)

La Buena Esperanza
Founder(s)Aron de Yosef Hazan
EditorAron de Yosef Hazan
Founded1871
LanguageLadino
Ceased publication1912
Headquartersİzmir
CountryOttoman Empire

La Buena Esperanza ([la ˈbweːna espeˈrantsa], Ladino: The Good Hope) was a Ladino language weekly newspaper which was published in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, in the period 1871–1912, being the longest-run Ladino newspaper in the city.

History and profile

La Buena Esperanza was launched in Smyrna in 1871. The founder and editor of the paper which was published on a weekly basis was Aron de Yosef Hazan. He was an Italian-origin Jewish who was working as a teacher at the Alliance Israélite Universelle school in Smyrna. He closed down La Buena Esperanza in 1912 when he had to leave the city because of the invasion of Tripoli by the Italian Empire.

References

  1. Dina Danon. "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir. A Modern History". Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Archived from the original (Book extract) on 12 August 2021.
  2. ^ Yvette Bürki (Autumn 2010). "The Ottoman Press at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century through the Salonica Newspapers La Época and El Avenir". European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe. 43 (2): 106. doi:10.3167/ej.2010.430210.
  3. Olga Borovaya (Autumn 2010). "The Emergence of the Ladino Press: The First Attempt at Westernization of Ottoman Jews (1842-1846)". European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe. 43 (2): 64. doi:10.3167/EJ.2010.430207.
  4. ^ Stanford J. Shaw (1992). The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. New York: NYU Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-8147-7958-3.


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