L'Illustration Juive - Iton Ivri Metzuyar. Founded by Rabbi David Prato of Alexandria, Egypt

(EGYPT)

March 1929-December

Alexandria

1930

Literary quarterly in French and Hebrew. Eight Issues (only). Profusely illustrated including artists of the Bezalel School, Jerusalem: Boris Schatz, Ze'ev Raban, Meir Gur-Aryeh, etc

This extensive periodical indicates how very active the cosmopolitan Jewish community of Alexandria was - and remained so until a preponderance of anti-Zionism pervaded Egyptian society. This lavish publication includes articles by thinkers Edmond Fleg and Martin Buber, novelist S. Y.Agnon and rabbinic scholar R. Abraham Schreiber (Sofer). Some of the articles relate particularly to the Alexandrian Jewish community