May Revolution (1810-1917)

Samuel de A. Levy

1917

25th of May

Israel, expressing the sentiments of the Jewish people living on these hospitable shores, in homage to this glorious, historic date,1 addresses to Argentina’s forefathers who acted that day, and to the spirit of equality that has always characterized their laws, its most fervent prayers that peace, considered by Jews to be one of the…

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Samuel de A. Levy

1886–after 1972

Samuel de A. Levy was born in Buenos Aires to immigrants who came from Tetouan, Morocco, to Argentina (by way of Gibraltar) in 1883. In 1917, Levy, who was working as an accountant, cofounded the Spanish-language Sephardic monthly Israel with a fellow Moroccan immigrant, Jacobo Levy. This journal, which became a weekly in 1918, served to connect the dispersed Argentine Jewish communities and helped draw together Argentina’s mix of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews into a more cohesive Argentine Jewish community.

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