TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elyada,Ouzi
AU  - Greenwood,Naftali
TI  - Hebrew Popular Journalism: birth and development in Ottoman Palestine 
T2  - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history
SN  - 9780367179205
AV  - PN5449 .P3 E152 2019
U1  - 079.5694 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Abingdon, New York
PB  - Roultedge
KW  - Hebrew newspapers
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Newspaper reading
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-303) and indexes; The Ben-Yehuda newspapers : identifying the Jewish readership -- The first Hebrew daily newspaper in Palestine : Ha-zvi -- The daily Ha-zvi : yellow editorial strategies and readers' reactions -- Ha-zvi and the mass-communication revolution in Ottoman Palestine -- The struggle for yellow hegemony : ha-or vs. ha-herut -- Crime and catastrophe stories in the Hebrew popular press -- Military coverage in the Hebrew popular press; The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and the eruption of World War I in 1914. The inquiry yields a profile of the printers, editors, and journalists, and examines the editors' working patterns, the gathering of journalistic information, and distribution of the resulting product in the public sphere. Addressing the fact that nearly all of the Hebrew press in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appealed to an elitist intellectual and affluent readership, the book breaks new ground by showing that from the 1880s onward, a popular press came into being in Palestine for the first time in the history of the Hebrew press. The focus is on three popular newspapers that evolved in Jerusalem along the lines of the Western popular press. While profiling the readership of the popular Hebrew press the book also investigates reading practices. Analysing the contribution of the press to the modernization of the Hebrew language, this pioneering volume is a key resource for students and scholars of communication, media and Hebrew studies, and media and Jewish history
ER  -