Narcisse Leven
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Narcisse Leven (15 October 1833Template:Spaced ndash6 January 1915) was a Jewish French lawyer.
Biography
Leven was born on 15 October 1833 in Uerdingen, France, which is now part of Germany.[1]
He was one of the original founders of the Alliance israélite universelle (AIU). He was its general secretary from 1863 to 1883, its vice-president from 1883 to 1898, and its president beginning in 1898.[1]
Narcisse, Manitoba, Canada was also named after Leven, who was then the president of the Jewish Colonization Association, by the residents of Bender Hamlet, a Jewish farm colony located 2 km east of Narcisse.
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