Shmuel Hayyim

Shmuel Hayyim (HE: שמואל חיים) (1891–1931), also known as Shmuel Eshagh Effendi or Monsieur Hayyim, was a Persian Jewish journalist, leader of the Iranian Jewish community, a Zionist, and a member of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament).

He studied in the Alliance Israelite Universelle schools in Kermanshah and learned foreign languages.

He was employed in the customs from 1914 and made good connections with the British embassy in Iran.

He decided to start publishing a newspaper for the Iranian Jews called Ha-Hayyim.

However, Reza Khan did not like his political ambitions and he was arrested before the sixth parliament elections.

Shmuel Hayyim.
First page of Ha-Hayyim newspaper which was published between 1922 and 1925.