Jewish Observer and Middle East Review
The Jewish Observer and Middle East Review was founded in 1952, replacing the Zionist Review as the official publication of the Zionist Federation of Britain.[1] The journal ceased publication in 1977 and was eventually replaced by the resurrection of the Zionist Review in 1982.
People
- Jon Kimche edited the Jewish Observer and Middle East Review from 1952 to 1967.[2] In March 1967, Kimche's publishers, the board of directors of the Zionist Review dismissed him after a dispute in which he accused their major stockholder, the Zionist Federation of Britain of censorship of material in the magazine. The Zionist Federation was the principal stockholder in the Zionist Review, publisher of the Observer. In an open letter to Kimche, The board denied that the dispute was prompted by an intervention some days earlier by Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who had objected to an article criticising Israel's Minister of Justice Yaacov Shapiro. The board charged Kimche with ignoring instructions from the editorial committee not to print an article on unemployment in Israel, which the committee considered misleading.[3][4]
- Emanuel Litvinoff According to an obituary in the Guardian: 'To make ends meet, Emanuel took a job on the Zionist Review (although he was not a Zionist), and became deputy editor on the Jewish Observer and Middle East Review.'[5]
Notes
- ↑ Last Issue of “Zionist Review” of Britain Appears Today, JTA, 1 February 1952.
- ↑ Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, Guardian, 19 March 1994.
- ↑ Editor of London ‘Jewish Observer’ Dismissed by Zionist Federation, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 13 March 1967.
- ↑ For further details see the page on Jon Kimche
- ↑ Judith Burnley Emanuel Litvinoff obituary: Poet and novelist, born in the East End, who railed against the fate of the Jews in his work The Guardian, Monday 26 September 2011 18.24 BST
