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LOT 18:
Precious Find - Volume of [95] Issues of 'El Tiempo'. Ladino. Istanbul, 1925-1926
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Precious Find - Volume of [95] Issues of 'El Tiempo'. Ladino. Istanbul, 1925-1926
A volume containing [95] consecutive issues - an entire year, of the important newspaper El Tiempo, which was printed in Ladino. Istanbul, September 25, 1925 - September 8, 1926.
Printed on the top of the issues is the title El Tiempo in Hebrew and Arabic and beneath it, the subtitle - "Afarisi el Martis e il B'iernis di Kad'ah Simanah". The newspaper introduced current news from varied countries and cities. A special emphasis was put on news from Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire. The issues also contained literary and scholarly passages as well as controversies and analyses of current affairs.
This newspaper, which is truly a precious find, serves as a rare, maybe even unique, historical source for studying the life of the Jewish communities of Turkey and for studying Ladino, which in the heat of Zionism has almost been forgotten.
El Tiempo was founded in Istanbul in 1872 by Chaim Cremona and is considered the first newspaper that was printed in Ladino and the most important of all Ladino newspapers in general. It was first published as a daily newspaper and since 1875, was published as a periodical. In 1910, David Fresco was appointed its manager and editor until his retirement in 1930. After his retirement, additional issues were not published.
Refer to Hebrew catalog text for an article about the El Tiempo newspaper.
966 pp. issues 1-95, an entire year with no lacks. Some of the issues are of 4 leaves and some of 6 leaves. 37X26.5 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Dampness stains and some mold to the lower part of the issues. At the end of the volume, lacks and folds to the lower right corner of several leaves, far from the text. A small perforation to leaves 177-178, with damage to single letters. Page 885 was printed (originally) close to the edge of the leaf and the margins of the lines were cropped in their last letters. Original binding, simple and worn.
