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Avraam Eliezer Benaroya (1887–1979) was a Bulgarian Narrow socialist, leader of the workers' movement in the Ottoman Empire and founder of the Communist Party of Greece.

Benaroya was born to a Sephardi Bulgarian Jewish family in Vidin. He was raised in Vidin by a family of small merchants. A polyglot, Benaroya learned to speak six languages fluently.

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He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, but did not graduate, becoming rather a teacher in Plovdiv. Here Benaroya became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) and published in Bulgarian his work The Jewish Question and Social Democracy.

After the Young Turk revolution of 1908 he mooved as a socialist organizer to Salonika. He founded here a group called Sephardic Circle of Socialist Studies and was in connection to the Bulgarian left-wing faction active in the city called People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section), as well as to some Bu