Albert Levy (photographer)
Albert Levy may refer to: * Albert Levy (surgeon) (1800–1848), surgeon to revolutionary Texan forces in 1835 * Albert Lévy (photographer) (1844–1907), French photographer * Albert Levy (editor) (20th century), editor of the Judaeo-Spanish language magazine '' La Vara'' * Albert Levy Themans (1889–1959), Dutch bobsledder and businessman See also *Yank Levy Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897September 2, 1965) was a Canadian soldier, socialist, military instructor and author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million publish ...

Albert Levy (surgeon)
Albert Moses Levy (1800 – 1848) was a Dutch-American physician best known for his work as a surgeon to the Texas Military Forces during and after the Texas Revolution. Early life Levy was born into a Jewish family in the Netherlands, probably in Amsterdam; his parents were Abraham Levy and Rachel Cornelia Levy, née Bernard. The Levys immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818. Albert Levy attended the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1832. He married Episcopalian Maria A. Bishop around 1830. They had one daughter, born 1832. The family relocated to Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1834, but Maria died the following year. Levy relocated to New Orleans, home of his brother Lewis, leaving his daughter in the care of his sister in Richmond. Texas Revolution and later life Levy soon joined the New Orleans Greys, a voluntary militia group supporting the Texas Revolution. After arriving in Texas, he was appointed chief surgeon of Texas' voluntary a ...
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Albert Lévy (photographer)
Albert Levy (1847 – 1931) was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States. Most active in the 1880s and 1890s, he was a pioneer of architectural photography. He developed a catalogue with 2500 titles that is available through the Gallica web project of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) as well as in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. His catalogue covers France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States. He was one of the first photographers to have studios on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: in Paris and New York. His main contribution to history documentation was his "Albert Levy's architectural photographic Series" in the 1870s that consists of albums with 30–40 albumen prints of the Architecture of the United States, with a size of 20x24 cm approximately. There are at least 36 series. Biography Levy was born in Paris in 1847 and died in Asnières-sur-Seine. However, the 1880 United ...
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Albert Levy (editor)
Albert Levy may refer to: *Albert Levy (surgeon) (1800–1848), surgeon to revolutionary Texan forces in 1835 *Albert Lévy (photographer) (1844–1907), French photographer * Albert Levy (editor) (20th century), editor of the Judaeo-Spanish language magazine '' La Vara'' * Albert Levy Themans (1889–1959), Dutch bobsledder and businessman See also *Yank Levy Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897September 2, 1965) was a Canadian soldier, socialist, military instructor and author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million publish ...

La Vara
''La Vara'' (English: ''The Stick'') was a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language weekly newspaper, published 1922–1948 in New York City, as a national Sephardi Jewish newspaper in the United States.Marc D. AngelThe Sephardim of the United States: An Exploratory Study Originally published in ''American Jewish life, 1920-1990'', Taylor & Francis, 1998, . Volume 4 of the 8-volume Routledge series ''American Jewish history'', Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed. PDF accessed online 2009-10-30; this is on p. 33 of the PDF, p. 109 of the book.Helene Schwartz Kenvin, ''This Land of Liberty: A History of America's Jews'', Behrman House, 1986, , p. 133. It was edited by Albert Levy,Albert Adatto, ''Sephardim and the Seattle Sephardic Community'', University of Washington masters thesis (1939), available at Seattle Central Library Seattle Room. p. 35–36. a Salonican Jew, and had a circulation of 16,500 in 1928. Marc D. Angel counts it as one of the two most important such publications historically, the ot ...
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Albert Levy Themans
Albert Jacobus Levy (8 May 1889 – 24 May 1959; also spelled Levij and Lévy), known as Albert Levy Themans and eventually as Albert Themans, was a Dutch bobsledder, executive, and briefly a political activist. He was the first Dutch athlete to be replaced right before the Winter Olympics. Career Bobsleigh Levy Themans started competing in bobsleigh competitions in the winter of 1922–23. Both as pilot and brakeman, he was successful in winning several prizes outside the Netherlands. He was selected to be part of the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics. Until the end of January, the newspapers wrote about him as a member of the Olympic team. At the last moment, on 30 January 1928 it was announced that Levy Themans would not compete. Due to a heavy strike of the staff at the family-owned factory, Levy Themans chose to withdraw. He was replaced by Edwin Teixeira de Mattos. Business and politics Albert Levy worked for his father's shoe manufacturing business, NV voorh ...
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