Samuel de A. Levy

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.