Jurab al Kurdy Newspapers, جراب الكردي‎ 1908-1913

Materials in this collection are in Arabic.

Jurab al Kurdy, جراب الكردي [The Kurd’s Pocket], also written as Jurab-ul-Kurdy, was an Arabic Boston newspaper produced in the early 1900s. It was produced by Antoine Anastas Zraick and released new issues thrice-weekly.

In 1903, Zraick attested that his paper served 1,500 Syrians in Boston and 20,000 Syrians overall (across the country and in Europe). He reportedly prepared his copies on his Arabic typewriter at his office at 35 (formerly 38) Edinboro Street and printed the paper in New York. At the time, Boston had “no suitable Arabic type.” Zraick shared in the Boston Sunday Post that he planned to have his own type cast so that he could move the printing to Boston.

Jurab al Kurdy Newspapers collection includes issues dating from November 1908 to May 1913.

This collection is arranged chronologically.

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[Identification of item], Jurab al Kurdy Newspapers, جراب الكردي‎, NS 0014, Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora

Materials purchased by the Khayrallah Center from the New York Public Library, 2019 August (Accession No. 2019.004).

Processed by Amanda Forbes and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2019-2020. Finding aid created by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October-November.