Abraham MAPOU, Sion la bien-aimée. Historical and adventure novel translated into French by Doctor Émile Junès. Paris, Librairie Lipschutz, 1937. In-8, publisher's paperback binding. Abraham Mapou published his first and most famous novel, Ahavat Tsion, in Hebrew in 1853, marking a turning point in the development of modern Hebrew literature. It is a historical novel about life in ancient Israel at the time of the prophet Isaiah. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba