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

(EGYPT).

Alexandria

March, 1929 - December, 1931

Literary quarterly in French and Hebrew. Twenty issues bound in one volume; twelve in French and eight in Hebrew. Profusely illustrated throughout.

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. L’Illustration Juive, a lavish cultural publication with strong focus upon Jewish fine arts, 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.