El Horria - La Liberté

El Horria (אלחוררייא⁩⁩‎)
La Liberté

El Horria in Moroccan Arabic with Hebrew script.

El Horria⁩ (Judeo-Moroccan Arabic: אלחוררייא, transl. "Freedom"⁩⁩) or La Liberté was a Judeo-Moroccan newspaper published in Tangier by Salomon Benaioun in two versions: one in Judeo-Moroccan Arabic and one in French.[1][2][3][4][5]

History

The Arabic version, El Horria, was published first published in 1914.[6] The first issue of the French version, La Liberté, was published June 18, 1915, with the 51st issue of El Horria.[6]

Funding

The newspaper had financial difficulties, and was sustained through a combination of personal investments from Benaioun, subscription fees, advertising revenue, and clandestine sponsorship from the French government, which saw the newspaper's pro-French editorial line as a useful tool of propaganda.[6] The colonial government paid 1,600 francs annually until 1918, after which it paid 2,000 francs annually until 1924 when the Statute of Tangier rendered the propaganda unnecessary.[6]

Digitization

It was scanned and digitized in the Historical Jewish Press project.[7]

References

1. "⁨⁨El Horria⁩ - ⁨אלחוררייא⁩⁩ | Newspapers | The National Library of Israel". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
2. Bensoussan, David (May 2012). Il était Une Fois Le Maroc: Témoignages Du Passé Judéo-marocain. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-2608-8.
3. Baida, Jamaa (2010-10-01). "Benaioun (Ben Ayoun), Salomon". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
4. Cohen, Pierre (2007). La presse juive éditée au Maroc : 1870-1963. Editions & Impressions Bouregreg. ISBN 978-9954-470-45-9. OCLC 494271917.
5. Miège, Jean-Louis. Journaux et journalistes a Tanger au XIXe siècle. OCLC 433729977.
6. Tam, Alon (2023). "Between El-Horria and La Liberté: The Jewish Worldview of a Judeo-Arabic and French Newspaper from Twentieth Century Tangier, Morocco". Jewish Social Studies. 27 (3): 123–157. ISSN 1527-2028.
7. "⁨⁨El Horria⁩ - ⁨אלחוררייא⁩⁩ | Newspapers | The National Library of Israel". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved 2021-12-12.