Education
At the early age of 12 he was studying at the Novograd-Volynsky Yeshiva (usually attended by much older students) but at the age of 19 he became an ardent Zionist and immigrated to Ottoman Palestine. In 1914 he enrolled at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, where he studied for two years (grades X and XI). In 1916, presented with the choice of becoming an Ottoman citizen or being deported back to Ukraine, he chose the former and was promptly drafted into the Ottoman army and sent, along with his classmates, to officers" school in Istanbul.
At the end of his term he returned to Paris to continue his studies and in 1935 received his Doctor of Philosophy in educational psychology from the Sorbonne.
Career
Born in the Ukrainian village of Nesolon (then in the Russian Empire) to a religious Jewish family. Following World War I he led a school for abandoned children, war orphans in Turkey. In 1925, after completing his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, he was invited by the Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria to be the superintendent of the Jewish schools in Bulgaria.
In addition to education-related essays published in professional journals such as "Hed Hachinuch" (הד החינוך), he published short stories (under the pseudonym "Aaron Aharoni") in the most important Hebrew periodicals of the period: Y.H. Brenner"s "HaAdamah" (האדמה), Joseph Klausner"s "HaShiloach" (השילוח) and Jacob Fichman"s "Ma-abarot" (מעברות).
He was an editor of the Encyclopedia Chinuchit" (Educational Encyclopedia אנציקלופדיה חינוכית) and published a series of teacher training books – "Guides" to elementary school grades. Doctor published numerous books
The most important ones among them: a series of history textbooks (in five volumes) and the translation of four of French-Jewish philosopher Henri Bergson"s books into Hebrew. In writing his history textbooks, Doctor Levy"s viewpoint was that studying historical dates is less important that learning the processes that led to historical events.
Indeed, in his series "Israel among the nations" one could hardly find dates and history is told in a narrative, compelling way.
Translations (into Hebrew) by Doctor Le Rire (Laughter הצחוק), Henri Begson, Tel Aviv 1938. 1962; 1975; 1981 On Dreams (Article החלום), Henri Bergson, Jerusalem 1940 Le jugement moral chez l"enfant (The Moral Judgment of the Child השפיטה המוסרית של הילד), Jean Piaget, Tel Aviv 1940 L"Energie spirituelle (Mind-Energy אנרגיה רוחנית), Henri Bergson, Tel Aviv 1944 L"Evolution créatrice (An Introduction to Metaphysics מבוא למטפיסיקה), Henry Bergson, Tel Aviv 1947 Louisiana Pensée et le mouvemant (Thought & Motion מחשבה ותנועה), Henri Bergson, Jerusalem 1953.
