The Jewish Chronicle / Sepher Zikaron. Two issues: Second Series, Number 1 (May 6th, 1842). pp. (16). * Second Series, Number 2 (May 13th, 1842). pp. 17-32

(ANGLO JUDAICA).

I. Vallentine, Jewish Chronicle Office

London

1842

English interspersed with Hebrew

The Jewish Chronicle is the oldest Jewish periodical in existence. It appeared as a weekly from its inception in November 12, 1841 until publication was suspended in 1842. In October 1844 it reappeared as a biweekly, and did not reassume the form of a weekly until 1847; it has remained thus until the present day. See EJ, Vol. X, cols. 40-41; and D. Cesarani, The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo Jewry. One notes with interest here that the last two pages of issue Number 1 are occupied by news of the Jewish Community of Jamaica. Also of note are pages 25-26 of Number 2, entirely in Hebrew, the substance of which is a Hebrew poem based on the Ten Commandments, in honor of the upcoming Festival of Shavu'oth. The acrostic reveals the author's name to be "Moshe bar Meir." One speculates that this is Moshe son of Myer Rintel, who would later become the first Australian rabbi, Rev. Moses Rintel (See Lot 270).