Our Demands: A Ladino Socialist Manifesto

Born in Vidin, Bulgaria, Abraham Benaroya studied in Alliance Israélite Universelle schools before attending law school in Belgrade. In 1909, Benaroya moved to Salonika from Plovdiv, where he became a printer and a leader in the Workers’ Socialist Federation of Salonika. He published the federation’s short-lived organ Amele gazetesi (The Workers’ Gazette), which appeared in Turkish, Bulgarian, Ladino, and Greek. In 1918, Benaroya cofounded the Greek Socialist Workers’ Party. He edited a number of other socialist papers until 1923 when he shifted his focus to combatting antisemitism. He survived a Nazi concentration camp and immigrated to Israel in 1953.