Lucien Sciuto

Sciuto was born in Thessaloniki in 1868 into a religious family.^[1] He attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle school which he left at age 14.^[1][2]

Sciuto worked for the newspapers in his hometown, including Le Journal de Salonique and Le Moniteur Oriental.^[2] His literary career began in 1884 when he published a poetry book entitled Poèmes misanthropiques.^[1] He published another poetry book in French and in 1894 he published another book in Paris in 1894, Paternité.^[1] Sciuto worked as the editor of a satirical magazine entitled Kalem in Istanbul.^[3] In 1909 he founded a French language newspaper, L'Aurore, which was published in Istanbul until 1919.^[4]

Sciuto left Istanbul due to his problems with local Jewish leaders and settled in Palestine.^[5] There he contributed various Hebrew newspapers.^[6] In 1924 he began to live in Cairo and relaunched L'Aurore as a weekly magazine.^[7] In Cairo he joined the Société d’Études Historiques Juives d’Égypte and published poems in the literary magazine, including L’Égypte Nouvelle.^[2]

Due to financial problems Sciuto left L'Aurore which had been started as a magazine in Cairo to his friend, Jacques Maleh, in 1931.^[8] Scito died in Alexandria in 1947.^[1][5]