Lucien Sciuto
{{Short description|Ottoman Jewish journalist and Zionist activist (1868–1947)}}
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| birth_date = 1868
| birth_place = Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1947|1868}}
| death_place = Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
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| occupation = Journalist
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| years_active = 1890s–1930s
| known_for = founder of L'Aurore
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Lucien Sciuto (1868–1947) was a Jewish educator, writer and journalist. Born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire, he worked for various publications in Istanbul and founded a magazine-turned-newspaper L'Aurore which was published in Istanbul and then, in Cairo between 1909 and 1941 with five-year hiatus.
Early life and education
Sciuto was born in Thessaloniki in 1868 into a religious family.{{cite book|author=D. Gershon Lewental|editor1=Norman A. Stillman|editor2=Phillip Isaac Ackerman-Lieberman|title=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World|date=2010|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden; Boston|isbn=9789004176782|chapter=Sciuto, Lucien|oclc=650852958 |chapter-url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/650852958}} He attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle school which he left at age 14.{{cite journal|author=Dario Miccoli|title=A Fragile Cradle: Writing Jewishness, Nationhood, and Modernity in Cairo, 1920–1940|journal=Jewish Social Studies|date=Spring–Summer 2016
|volume=21|issue=3|pages=16–17|doi=10.2979/JEWISOCISTUD.21.3.01|hdl=10278/3666577|s2cid=156205187|hdl-access=free}}
Career and activities
Sciuto worked for the newspapers in his hometown, including Le Journal de Salonique and Le Moniteur Oriental. His literary career began in 1884 when he published a poetry book entitled Poèmes misanthropiques. He published another poetry book in French and in 1894 he published another book in Paris in 1894, Paternité. Sciuto worked as the editor of a satirical magazine entitled Kalem in Istanbul.{{cite thesis|author=Juliette Rosenthal|title=From Constantinople to Cairo: A Zionist Newspaper Across National Boundaries|url=https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=hist_stu_schol
|location=Skidmore College|page=28|degree=Undergraduate|year=2019}} In 1909 he founded a French language newspaper, L'Aurore, which was published in Istanbul until 1919.{{cite news|author=Nesi Altaras|work=Avlaremoz|title=L'Aurore Gazetesinin İstanbul'dan Mısır'a Öyküsü
|access-date=17 February 2022|date=29 March 2020|url=https://www.avlaremoz.com/2020/03/29/laurore-gazetesinin-istanbuldan-misira-oykusu/
|archive-date=4 February 2021|language=tr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204112644/https://www.avlaremoz.com/2020/03/29/laurore-gazetesinin-istanbuldan-misira-oykusu/}}
Sciuto left Istanbul due to his problems with local Jewish leaders and settled in Palestine.{{cite news|author=Ovadia Yerushalmi
|title=The Newspaper That Put the Jews of Egypt on the World Stage|work=NLI Newsletter|url=https://blog.nli.org.il/en/newspaper-jews-egypt/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223225437/https://blog.nli.org.il/en/newspaper-jews-egypt/|access-date=17 February 2022|date=1 January 2019|archive-date=23 December 2021}} There he contributed various Hebrew newspapers.{{cite journal|author=Judith Bronstein
|title=Zionism, Medieval Culture, and National Discourse|journal=Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome|year=2017|volume=62|page=132
|jstor=26787022}} In 1924 he began to live in Cairo and relaunched L'Aurore as a weekly magazine.{{cite web|title=L'Aurore
|publisher=The National Library of Israel|url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/lauror|access-date=15 February 2022|archive-date=4 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204140207/https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/lauror}} In Cairo he joined the Société d’Études Historiques Juives d’Égypte and published poems in the literary magazine, including L’Égypte Nouvelle.
Due to financial problems Sciuto left L'Aurore which had been started as a magazine in Cairo to his friend, Jacques Maleh, in 1931.{{cite journal|author=Bat Ye'or|title=Zionism in Islamic lands: The case of Egypt|journal=Wiener Library Bulletin|year=1977|volume=XXX|page=21
|issue=43–44|author-link=Bat Ye'or|url=http://dhimmitude.org/archive/by_zionism_islamiclands_egypt.pdf}} Scito died in Alexandria in 1947.
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