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Hebrew weekly periodical published in New York reflecting the position of religious Zionism. Ha-Ivri was founded by R. Meir Bar-Han (Berlin, 1880-1949) and published in Berlin from 1910 to 1914 and in New York from 1916 to 1921. Bound in each volume are all the issues for the year. The masthead has, at the top, the volume number in Hebrew and English, and below a prominent Magen David with the words ha-Ivri in bold Hebrew superimposed over it. Below, in English, the title is given as Haibri and then in Hebrew that it was founded in Berlin in 1911. Next, in a single line, is the Hebrew date, a statement that it appears every Friday, and the location and date in English. The text is in Hebrew in square letters in two columns.
Each issue is comprised of sixteen pages. At the end of most issues are advertisements, although occasionally other matter appears. The first issue in this volume begins by informing that it is the eleventh volume, the sixth in America. The five volumes issued in Germany were intermittent due to world events. In contrast, the American volumes are consistent. Each issue includes a summary of the weeks events, contemporary questions, tales, poetry, summaries of journals, and columns on Erez Israel, aggaddah, and other subjects of interest to the reader. There are occasional photographs of contemporary rabbis and portraits of historical figures, such as Tuviyyah ha-Rofe (Tobias ben Moses Cohn, 1652-1729) in the Feb. 25 issue (p. 10). The price of an annual subscription is $4.00 in the United. States, $.4.50 in Canada, and elsewhere $5.00. Semi-annual
subscriptions are half price and single copies are ten cents. The amount and contents o( the advertisements vary, being less frequent in the later issues. As an example, the Feb. 25 issue has large advertisemt for J. D. Eisenstein's Ozar Haggadot, Z. Scharfstein"s book on Aggadot, M. Trotzky in the Broadway Central Hotel for weddings and banquets, Horowitz Bros. & Margareten, Mizrachi Bureau for tefillin and Mezzuzot from Jerusalem, Solomon Frankel for Ya' ar for Erez Israel. This is an invaluable work for American Jewish history, rich in the minutiae of contemporary events rarely recorded in general historical works.
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