''Le Réveil juif'' ("Jewish Awakening") was a

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revisionist Zionist Revisionist Zionism is an ideology developed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann which was focused on the settling of ''Eretz Yisrael'' ( Land of Israel) by independent ...

weekly newspaper published from

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'. 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 .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

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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

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to discuss their political and social views. They were also essential in the relationships between

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

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and

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. The paper was distributed across Tunisia,

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. 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 Ze'ev Jabotinsky ( he, זְאֵב זַ׳בּוֹטִינְסְקִי, ''Ze'ev Zhabotinski'';, ''Wolf Zhabotinski'' 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940), born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leade ...

published a series of articles in the weekly in 1928. The publishing of ''Le Réveil juif'' was moved to

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in the mid-1930s. ''Le Réveil juif'', as well as other Jewish publications in Tunisia, was suppressed by the

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in October 1940.Gottreich, Emily.
Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa
'. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2010. p. 310

References

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