For sale is an original archive of approximately 30 postcards, photographs and personal correspondence belonging to the Levy family, a Sephardic Jewish family of Bulgarian origin. The material spans from the 1920s through the late 1950s and documents more than three decades of family life and international connections.

Beginning with early family photographs and postcards from Sofia and Ruse, Bulgaria, in the 1920s and 1930s, the archive continues to the 1950s with correspondence exchanged among members of the Levy family across Europe and beyond. Locations represented include Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, France, Sweden, Norway, Panama and Israel. Many later cards were addressed to the family residence in Tel Aviv.

Written in several languages including Ladino, Bulgarian (Cyrillic), French, Italian, German, English and Hebrew, the archive preserves family messages, travel greetings, inscribed photographs, original stamps, postal cancellations and postage due markings.

An interesting documentary archive of a Sephardic Jewish family of Bulgarian origin, illustrating migration, kinship and everyday life from the interwar period to the first decade of the State of Israel.

Sold as one complete family archive. Condition varies. Please examine photographs carefully.

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