UNIVERS ISRAÉLITE

UNIVERS ISRAÉLITE, French-language periodical which was published in Paris from 1844 to 1940. In its first issue it was described as a "monthly religious, moral, and literary journal," but from January 1846, it adopted as a subtitle "journal of the conservative interests of Judaism." Then a bimonthly publication, it proposed to consider all political or social events that might have some direct or indirect bearing on the Jewish community. From 1896 it appeared as a weekly until the fall of France in May–June 1940. For decades it had been the organ which published the principal statements of the chief rabbis of France. The chief editors were S. Bloch (1844–78), lazare wogue (1879–93), Israel Lévi (1894–95), maurice liber (1919–34), and raymond lambert (from September 1934). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. Wormser, Journal de la communauté (1950). (Roger Berg)