| AdminHistory | English Jewish weekly newspaper published in London; founded by George Lewis Lyon, a financial journalist, 1873; its first editor was Myer Davis; John Raphael was its editor from c1900 to c1906; for a time it published a Yiddish supplement, edited by Jacob Hodess; in its time it filled a position of some importance in Anglo-Jewish life, publishing articles by various Zionist leaders, as well as by non-Jewish precursors of Zionism such as Henry Wentworth Monk, and Holman Hunt, the painter; it was taken over in 1913 by the Jewish Chronicle, with which it was merged in 1934. |