Jacques Lebar
Born in Paris in 1911, Jacques Lebar is resulting from an Algerian Jewish family. Engaged in Resistance, it binds friendship with Roger Stephan. It is by its skew that in 1950, it integrates the founder team of the Observer and its editorial board.
Two years later, it enters to the Alliance Jew where, with Gerard Israel, it launches the New Books. With France Observer, he is initially sub-editor at semi time. But it is forced like one of the principal organizers of the newspaper on the point to become about it, the beginning of the year 1960, the writer as an chief-assistant. Fervent supporter of the Algerian independence cause, it returns account of many demonstrations or meetings of associations supporting it. In 1961, it is those which, like Claude Bourdet, are hostile with the financial aid of Claude Perdriel. But he does not judge any less than the systematic opposition to the gaullism does not have greater direction and than the newspaper must take its distances with the positions and the tactics of PSU. Belonging to old of France Observer recovered with the Nouvel Observateur, he is a shareholder and vigilant member of his board of directors. In parallel, it militates within the New Books for a peace in the Middle East and, in particular after the war of the Six-Jours, for the creation of a Palestinian State. In Nouvel Observateur, it seems a personality of a field crop very attached to the respect of the French language. But it is relegated to the row of assistant of the chief of the literary service - i.e. of Guy Dumur - before dealing with the letters to the Editor.
Y receiving approximately two hundred letters per week, it is charged to choose the dozen letters published in each number. Being based on any statistical base, it particularly retains the letters which refer in an article and which bring an explanation or information, for example on scandal, the school or social struggles. If it has of a place of predilection and an important surface compared to the other weekly magazines, it must take into account that the size granted to its heading is decided only at the last time. But for him, the mail “is worth especially by the importance of the dialog which it generates and the respect of the public that it supposes”.
It seems to leave the newspaper about 1980.
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