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El Progresso (Yosef ha-Daʿat)
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El Progresso, also known as  Yosef Daʿat (Increase of Knowledge) was a Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish bimonthly, published in Edirne (Adrianople) from March to December 1888 by Rabbi Abraham Danon, an exponent of the Haskala. The first Jewish periodical to appear in Edirne, it reflected Danon’s lifelong effort to synthesize traditional learning with modern ideas. The paper was sponsored by the Ḥevrat Shoḥare Tushiyya (Society of the Proponents of Wisdom), also called Doreshe ha-Haskala (Seekers of Enlightenment), which he founded in 1879. It was printed both in Judeo-Sp…

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D Gershon Lewental, “El Progresso (Yosef ha-Daʿat)”, in: Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Consulted online on 30 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0007110>
First published online: 2010



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