Simon Liachovitzky

It is possible that he was born in 1876 in Russia and arrived in Argentina in 1895 at the age of 19. He was already married at that time and lived at Departamento Colón, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Source Census : Country: Argentina Folder: 004161113 Film: 714400 Date: 1895 Image: 162

Furthermore he came with his brother Sam (Simche Liachovitzy) Sam

Yiddish, the language of the majority of the Jewish immigrants, was the first language of journalistic Jewish creativity in Latin America. Jewish newspapers, journals, and literary, social, and political publications existed in almost every community. The first known publications were printed in Buenos Aires in the 1890s, in Yiddish: Viderkol (edited by Michl Hacohen Sinai) and Der Yiddisher Fonograf and Di Folks Shtime. The first periodical publication in Spanish was El Sionista (edited by Jacobo Liachovitzky) in 1904.

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Lázaro *Liacho (1897–1969), a journalist and poet, and his father, Jacob Simon Liachovitzky (1874–1937), a journalist and a leading Zionist, both wrote on Jewish themes. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_...

Portada del "Diario israelita", dirigido por Jacobo Liachovitzky, fundador de la Federación Argentina Sionista y presidente de la sociedad "Dr. Teodoro Herzl".

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