Collection of issues of the monthly journal La Juive Sépharadite – the official organ of the Universal ...

Collection of issues of the monthly journal La Juive Sépharadite – the official organ of the Universal Confederation of Sephardic Jews in France and the region. 1932–1935

Collection of 32 issues of the periodical Le Judaïsme Sépharadi – Organe mensuel de la Confédération universelle des Juifs Sépharadim – “Sephardic Judaism – Monthly publication of the Universal Confederation of Sephardic Jews” – the official journal of the Universal Confederation of Sephardic Jews, an organization founded to represent the Jews of the East and North Africa within the broader Jewish sphere in Europe and on the international stage. Paris, issues from the years 1932–1935. In French. Extremely rare.

Issues by year:

1932: Issues 1–5 (August–December 1932). Issue No. 1 is the inaugural issue of the journal in its first year of publication.

1933: Full annual set: Issues 6–15 (January–December 1933).

1934: Full annual set: Issues 16–24 (October–December; November issue likely not published).

1935: Issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34 (Issues 32–34 published as a single bound volume), 35, 36.

Featuring extensive articles and essays by various contributors, the issues include coverage of developments in Alliance schools and in schools of Eastern Jewish communities, messages from Rabbi Israel Lévi, Chief Rabbi of France, articles on Moroccan Jewry, Sephardic Jewry in the Land of Israel, the Sephardim of Egypt, Yemenite Jewry, the Jewish community of Salonika, a conference held by the Sephardic Jewish University in France, the rise and decline of Sephardic Jewry, and the regular column "In Our Communities" covering Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Morocco, and more. The April 1933 issue features an article on antisemitism in Germany, among others. 

This periodical serves as a vital source on the state of Sephardic and Eastern Jewry during the interwar period, including the attitude of Ashkenazi Jewish organizations toward Sephardic communities, the awakening of a Sephardic-Jewish identity in a national-cultural framework, and the community’s confrontation with processes of modernization and French colonialism. 

Extremely rare. According to the WorldCat global library catalog, there is only a single recorded entry for this periodical - in the holdings of the British Library in London.

32 issues (height of each issue: 33 cm). All issues are complete. Minor wear to the covers of some issues. Tears and losses to the upper portion of the cover of issue no. 1, not affecting the text. Overall good condition.