| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer. By C. S. Monaco. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. xiv, 240 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8071-3095-8.)
In C. S. Monaco's nuanced and thorough biography, constructed from research in two dozen American, Austrian, British, Caribbean, French, German, and Spanish repositories, Moses Elias Levy emerges as far more than the estranged father of the U.S. senator David Levy Yulee. He appears as a leading figure in territorial Florida, the Atlantic trade, American utopianism, British abolitionism, and the quest for Jewish equality in the Americas and Europe. Levy's story resonates far beyond state borders to illuminate economic expansion and migration in the Atlantic world, nineteenth-century Protestant and Jewish religious thought, and slavery and abolitionism.	1
Born in July 1782, the son of the notorious Moroccan courtier and royal merchant, Eliahu Ha-Levi ibn Yuli, Levy fled growing antisemitism in North Africa and settled with his parents in British Gibraltar. In 1800 he arrived on the island of St. Thomas where he joined a growing Sephardic community in the Caribbean, rose from a provision merchant's clerk to a business partner with Judah Benjamin's father, married into a prominent St. Eustatius Jewish family, and fathered four children (including youngest son, David).	. . .

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