**ISAAC JACK LEVY**, see tree attached.[[[[[[https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)](https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue1/Zumwalt.html)Isaac was born on the Isle of Rhodes on December 21, 1928. In 1939, as tensions in Europe escalated, he and his family left Rhodes and found refuge in Tangier, Morocco, joining a community of fellow islanders who had fled the looming horrors of World War II.In 1945, amid the turmoil of the war, Isaac, his mother, and his grandmother immigrated to the United States, arriving through the Port of New Orleans. They later settled in Atlanta and Brooklyn.Isaac pursued higher education with distinction. He earned a Master of Arts from the University of Iowa in 1959, followed by a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1966. Throughout his life, he remained deeply committed to researching and writing about the history and culture of his people—the Sephardim.I have his book: Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits