Samuel Benchimol, a leader of Sephardic Jews from Brazil’s Amazon region, died last Friday. A historian, Benchimol was president of the General Assembly of the Amazon Jewish Committee, emeritus professor at the Amazonas State Federal University and member of the Amazon Academy of Letters.
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