Le Réveil juif ("Jewish Awakening") was a French language revisionist Zionist weekly newspaper published from Sfax, Tunisia.Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 469- Laskier, Michael M. North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. New York, NY [u.a.]: New York Univ. Press, 1994. p. 41
History and profile Le Réveil juif was founded in September 1924 by Félix Allouche.Mohsen Hamli. Le Réveil Juif (Sfax). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2012 Issued on Fridays, it contained four pages.
It was one of the most important Zionist newspapers in North Africa and in Tunisia.Parfitt, Tudor. Israel and Ishmael: Studies in Muslim Jewish Relations. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. p. 113 These publications were a platform for the Jewish society to discuss their political and social views. They were also essential in the relationships between Jews, French people and Muslims.
The paper was distributed across Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Metropolitan France.Lerman, Antony. The Jewish Communities of the World : a Contemporary Guide. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press in association with the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1989. p. 159 Henri Maarek and Elie Louzon were editors-in-chief of the newspaper and its editing managers were Michel Loffreda, Jacques Taieb and Maurice Sitbon. A right-wing revisionist Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky published a series of articles in the weekly in 1928.
The publishing of Le Réveil juif was moved to Tunis in the mid-1930s.Houtsma, M. Th. E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936. New York: E.J. Brill, 1987. p. 868
Le Réveil juif, as well as other Jewish publications in Tunisia, was suppressed by the Vichy regime in October 1940.Gottreich, Emily. Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2010. p. 310
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