Le Réveil juif was founded in September 1924 by
Félix Allouche.[2][3] Issued on Fridays, it contained four pages.[3]
It was one of the most important
Zionist newspapers in
North Africa and in Tunisia.[2][4] These publications were a platform for the
Jewish society to discuss their political and social views.[4] They were also essential in the relationships between
Jews,
French people and
Muslims.[4]
The paper was distributed across Tunisia,
Algeria,
Morocco and
Metropolitan France.[5] Henri Maarek and Elie Louzon were editors-in-chief of the newspaper and its editing managers were Michel Loffreda, Jacques Taieb and Maurice Sitbon.[3] A
right-wing revisionist Zionist leader
Zeev Jabotinsky published a series of articles in the weekly in 1928.[6]
The publishing of Le Réveil juif was moved to
Tunis in the mid-1930s.[7]
Le Réveil juif, as well as other Jewish publications in Tunisia, was suppressed by the
Vichy regime in October 1940.[8]
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abcMohsen Hamli. Le Réveil Juif (Sfax). Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2012