(SEPHARDICA).

Ottoman Empire

1881-1947

Collection of newspapers in the Jewish vernacular from Greece, Turkey and Algeria: Action (Ladino newspaper), Salonika, Greece, 1936 issue (on the Arab revolt in Eretz Israel).* Salom (bilingual, Ladino and Turkish newspaper), Istanbul, December 1947 issue, headline "The English pull out of Palestine." * Sabat (bilingual Ladino and Turkish newspaper), Istanbul, December 1947 issue (about Palestinian Jews forming army of defense). * Shomer Israel (Judeo-Arabic weekly), Oran, Algeria, 4 issues of December, 1881. * Le Nouvelliste Israelite / Magid Meisharim (Judeo-Arabic newspaper), Oran, Algeria, Nos. 2, 6-8 (1881-2). * La Vaharani Lahikani (Judeo-Arabic newspaper), Oran, Algeria, 1886. * In addition, 2 Sephardic amulets (kameyot). * And finally, the "Sepher Takanoth" or by-laws of the "Chevrah Ottomanith le-Mischar, Neta'im ve-Ta'asiyah be-Kushta" [Société Ottomane de Commerce, Agriculture & Industrie], translated from Turkish by Gad Frumkin, Constantinople. Hebrew manuscript, Aschkenazic cursive script. pp. 13 + 3 integral blanks. Accompanied by printed prospectus of Agudath Neta'im Mischar ve-Ta'asiyah - Kusta / Société Ottomane de Commerce, Agriculture & Industrie (Jaffa, 1913). pp. (2). (See below)

The three founders of the Société Ottomane de Commerce, Agriculture & Industrie were "Nissim Agiman, supervisor of forestry and mining, Adrianople, a Turkish citizen; Jacob [illegible], supervisor of railways, Constantinople, a Turkish citizen; and Gad Frumkin, merchant, Constantinople, a Turkish citizen." Gad Frumkin (1887-1960) was one of the few Jewish lawyers in Palestine under Ottoman rule. After the British conquest, he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Palestine in 1920 - the only Jewish appointee - and remained on the bench until the end of the British Mandate in 1948. A born Jerusalemite, he was the son of Israel Dov Frumkin, publisher of Chavatzeleth. See EJ, Vol. X, col. 1508