Rebecca Amato Levy, an author who spent decades writing about Sephardic Jewish life, died at the age of 89. She fled the Mediterranean island of Rhodes in 1939 under the threat of Italian fascism, moving first to France and then Morocco before settling in Los Angeles.
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