Musa Elias Levy

Moses Elias Levy (Yuli 10, 1782 - Satumba 7, 1854; Ibrananci: משה אלי Eli לוי, Larabci: موسى إلياس ليفي) ɗan kasuwa ne ɗan ƙasar Maroko, mai shuka, kuma mai gyara zamantakewa da addini. An haife shi a cikin dangin Yahudawa na Sephardic a Maroko, Levy ya yi ƙaura zuwa Gibraltar tun yana yaro kuma daga baya ya kafa kansa a matsayin mai sayar da kaya a cikin Caribbean tare da ma'amala da kasuwanci mai yawa a cikin cinikin bayi a Ingila, Turai, da Amurka. Ɗansa David Levy Yulee ya wakilci Florida a majalisa ta Amurka.

Bayan tara dukiya, Levy ya ƙare aikinsa na kasuwanci don tallafawa rayuwa da ke kan abubuwan agaji. A shekara ta 1821 ya yi hijira zuwa Yankin Florida a Amurka inda ya kafa babban mafaka na gona ga Yahudawa da ke fama da zalunci a Turai. Kodayake yawan Yahudawa sun kasa tsammanin, akalla iyalai biyar na Yahudawa sun shiga hanyarsu zuwa Levy's Pilgrimage Plantation - wanda ke arewacin tsakiyar Florida - yana mai da wannan zama na farko na Yahudawa a Amurka (1822-1835).  Wutar ta lalata gonar a lokacin farawar Yaƙin Seminole na Biyu (1835-1842). Levy, mai bautar, ya kasance mai ban mamaki a cikin shawararsa game da 'yancin bayi a hankali. Ya rubuta "A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery" yayin da yake Landan a 1828, inda ya sami shahara a lokacin yakin neman bautar. Levy ya taimaka wajen jagorantar jerin muhawara tsakanin addinai a wuraren da suka fi dacewa inda ya kalubalanci Kiristoci su kawo karshen adawa da Yahudawa. Tun da Yahudawa ba su taɓa shiga cikin jama'a a Ingila ba, kuma tabbas ba su taɓa yin tambaya a bayyane game da halin da ake ciki ba, waɗannan tarurrukan jama'a sun haifar da fushi a London. Yaduwar jaridu na kasa da kasa sun kira wadannan zanga-zangar a matsayin "Movement na Musamman na Yahudawa".  Levy shine mahaifin Sanata na Amurka daga Florida David Levy Yulee. 

 Rayuwa ta farko 
Musa Levy ɗan Eliahu Ha-Levi ibn Yuli ne, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin sakatare ga Sultan Mohammed ben Abdullah, da matarsa, Rachel, wacce ta fito daga Tangiers, ɗaya daga cikin mata uku a cikin auren da yawa. An ce Rahila ta yi magana da harshen Mutanen Espanya sosai. Iyalin Ibn Yuli sun fito ne daga Yahudawa na Sephardic waɗanda aka kore su daga Spain. Su ne fitattun mutane waɗanda suka yi aiki a matsayin jami'an kotu da masu ba da shawara ga sarakunan Maroko. A shekara ta 1790, iyalin suka gudu zuwa Gibraltar, inda Moses Levy ya girma zuwa ƙuruciya.Hunter, Leon (2021-03-17). "Moses Elias Levy, An Early Florida Pioneer and the Father of Florida's First Senator". Florida Historical Quarterly. 19 (4).

 Ayyuka 
A shekara goma sha takwas Levy - bayan ya bar sunan Yuli - ya bar yankin zuwa tsibirin Virgin Islands na Danish, inda ya kafa kansa a matsayin babban dan kasuwa a Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas . A lokacin da yake cikin tsibirin Virgin Levy ya shiga kasuwancin katako.[1] A cikin 1803 ya auri Hannah Abendanone (1786-1872), 'yar wani dan kasuwa na gida, David Abendanone, da matarsa, Rachel. Suna da 'ya'ya hudu. Mafi ƙanƙanta, David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), ya zama Bayahude na farko da aka zaba a Majalisar Dattijan Amurka, wanda ke wakiltar Florida. Kamfanin Musa Levy na Levy & Benjamin ya bi kasuwanci mai yawa a duk faɗin Caribbean. Philip Benjamin, dan uwansa kuma abokin kasuwanci, shi ne mahaifin Judah P. Benjamin, Sakataren Gwamnati na gaba. Levy daga ƙarshe ya bar wannan kamfani kuma ya gudanar da kasuwancin kansa a San Juan, Puerto Rico sannan Havana, Cuba. Abokantakarsa da Alejandro Ramirez, mai kula da Cuba da Floridas, ya kasance mai tasiri wajen fadada yanayin kasuwancin Levy. A wani lokaci Levy ya ba da babbar rundunar Janar Pablo Morillo a Venezuela abinci, makamai, da sauran kayayyaki.[2]

Da tasirin al'adun bishara, a cikin 1816 Levy ya sha wahala ta ruhaniya, wani taron da aƙalla ya kasance wani ɓangare na auren fushi da rashin nasara. Bayan kisan aure mai ban mamaki, wanda sarki Danish ya ba shi (1818) Levy ya watsar da kasuwanci mai ci gaba don neman rayuwa da aka sadaukar da ita ga abin da ya kira "mai tsarki" na sake fasalin. Shirye-shiryensa sun haɗa da "mazaunin mafaka" ga Yahudawa waɗanda ke fama da cin zarafi mai yawa a Turai bayan Napoleon. Duk da wadatarsa, Levy ya ji tsoron hakan zai haifar da zunubi.

A cikin 1820, ya sayi kadada 53,000 na ƙasa a cikin abin da ke yanzu Lake City, Florida, kusa da Kogin St. John. Daga baya ya sayi ƙarin ƙasa a cikin abin da ke yanzu Alachua County da Marion County, Florida, inda ya kafa gonar sukari da ake kira Hope Hill .

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