Ask about this item

Volume of issues of the periodical "Halevanon", edited by Yechiel Brill and Meir Markus Lehman. Mainz, 1872-1874.
Volume of issues of "Halevanon" – issues 1-50 of the ninth year (the first issue is incomplete) and issues 1-49 of the tenth year (issue 35 and 44 are missing).
"Halevanon", edited by Yechiel Brill, was of the first Hebrew newspapers in Palestine. It was published intermittently during the years 1863-1886 in Jerusalem, Paris, Mainz and London. The most important members of the Old Yishuv and the first Chovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) took part in its writing.
"Halevanon" was founded in Jerusalem by Yechiel Brill, Michel HaCohen and Joel Moshe Salomon and was considered the first newspaper of the "Ashkenazic-Prushim" (mitnagdim) in Jerusalem. 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 of Jerusalem. The competition between the two newspapers was so fierce that a year after their foundation, in 1864, due to mutual denouncements, they were forced to close by the Ottoman government. A year later Yechiel Brill resumed the publication of "Halevanon" in Paris where it was published during the years 1865-1870, until the siege on Paris during the France-Prussia war, which led to its discontinuation. Later on, it was transferred to Mainz where it was published during the years 1871-1882 as a weekly Hebrew supplement to the Jewish German paper "Der Israelit".
A total of 97 issues from the ninth and tenth years, Missing: the first leaf of issue no. 1 of the ninth year and issues no. 35 and 44 of the tenth year. Approx. 30.5 cm. Condition varies. Fair-good overall condition. Stains. Fold lines. Tears (some of them coarse). Detached and loose leaves. The first and last leaves are attached to the binding with wide strips of tape. Stamps and postage stamps. Blemishes to binding.