"Halevanon" - Volume of Issues - Paris, 1864-1867

"Halevanon" - Volume of Issues - Paris, 1864-1867
Halevanon, "announces and informs about everything necessary for a Jewish person to know, if he is Jewish". Published by Yehiel Brill. Paris, December 1864 through December 1867.
Volume of second, third and fourth year issues. • Second year: issues 1-24. The first twelve pages of the first issue are missing and replaced with photocopies. • Third year: issues 1-24. • Fourth year: issues 1-24. Last leaf of last issue is missing.
“Halevanon” edited by Yechiel Brill, was of the first Hebrew newspapers in Eretz Israel. It was published intermittently, and not regularly, during the years 1863-1886 in Jerusalem, Paris, Mainz and London.
"Halevanon" was founded in Jerusalem by Yehiel Brill, Michal Hacohen and Yoel Moshe Salomon and was considered the first paper of the Ashkenazi-Perushim (Mitnagdim) in the city. Following its foundation, a competing paper was founded in Jerusalem: "HaChavatzelet", edited by Israel Frumkin and printed by Israel Bak representing the Hasidim and Sephardic Jews in Jerusalem. The competition between the two papers was so fierce that one year after their foundation, in 1864, mutual transfer of information to the Turkish regime led to the closure of both. A year later Brill resumed the publication of "Halevanon" in Paris, where it was published in the years 1865-1870, until the siege on Paris during the France-Prussia war, led to its discontinuation. Later on it was published in Mainz and London.
Volume, 21 cm. Condition varies. Most issues in good condition. Some issues in poor condition, detached or torn. Damaged binding.