Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
"El Jugeton", Satiric Periodical in Ladino – 293 Consecutive Issues, in Six Volumes – Istanbul, 1910-1915 – Rare
Six bound volumes of issue of the satiric periodical "El Jugeton" (also: El Gugeton), edited by Elia Rafael Carmona. Years 2-7 – 293 issues. Istanbul: Arditi press, 1910-1915. Ladino.
The newspaper features "mostly satirical literary texts, such as poems, parodies and articles criticizing the community leadership and figures etc. Includes serialized stories, many of them by Carmona, the editor" (Cohen, see below). Some issues printed on colored paper. Occasional cartoons and illustrations.
293 issues – all the issues for years 2-7 of the periodical's publication (in six volumes): • Year 2, 51 consecutive issues – Nissan 1910 to Adar 1911. • Year 3, 51 consecutive issues – Adar 1911 to Adar 1912. • Year 4, 52 consecutive issues – Nissan 1912 to Adar I 1913. • Year 5, 52 consecutive issues – Adar II 1913 to Adar 1914. • Year 6, 43 consecutive issues – Adar 1914 to Adar 1915. • Year 7, 44 consecutive issues – Adar 1915 to Nissan 1916.
Rare. A complete collections of consecutive issues from these years is scarce.
The editor, Elia Rafael Carmona (1869-1931/5), humorist and satirist, prominent Ladino journalist and writer, was born in Istanbul to a Sephardic family of distinguished lineage. He authored romances, novellas and serialized novels; worked as typist for the journalist David Fresco, with whom he held close ties. After the 1908 Young Turks Revolution, which allowed for greater freedom of publication in the Ottoman Empire, he began publishing the El Jugeton. The paper gained popularity and was published for over two decades.
See: Dov Cohen, Thesaurus of Ladino Books, Yad Ben Zvi, 2021. No. 3546. • Moshe David Gaon, A Bibliography of the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Press, Ben Zvi Institute, 1965, no. 86.
6 volumes. Most issues 8-pages long. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition (some issues in good-fair condition). Stains. Tears, mostly minor. One leaf torn in half; several leaves with long tears, repaired. Margins of some issues trimmed, slightly affecting text. Minor worming to some issues. Ink faded on several leaves. Some handwritten notations. A few leaves detached or partially detached. Minor defects to bindings.