📖 Shahar, by Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh (1910)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Artur Carlos de Barros Basto

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4 June 2023 under the Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication

Categories:

Personal & Paraliturgical Prayer collections

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Portuguese Jewry, Portuguese vernacular prayer, Oryam movement

Shahar is a morning prayerbook in vernacular Portuguese prepared in 1910 by Artur Carlos de Barros Basto under his Hebrew name, Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh. This is the second edition or printing of the prayerbook, under the auspices of the Instituto Oryamita Do Porto, published in 1920. A descendant of a forcibly converted Jewish family, ‘Oryam’ was the particular religious expression of Artur Carlos de Barros Basto in the years prior to his return and embrace by the Jewish community.

This work is in the Public Domain due to its having been published more than 95 years ago.

This digital edition was prepared by Aharon Varady for the Open Siddur Project from a copy held in the collection of the HUC-JIR Klau Library in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Thank you!) This work is cross-posted to the Internet Archive, as a repository for our transcription efforts.

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (אברהם ישראל בן־ראש; Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh; 18 December 1887 – 8 March 1961) was a Portuguese military officer and writer, who published dozens of works contributing to Jewish life and Judaism in Portugal. A pioneering Jewish leader, he helped to re-establish the Jewish Community in Porto and assisted in the construction of the Kadoorie Synagogue, the largest Synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula. During World War Ⅱ, Barros Basto helped Jewish refugees escape the Holocaust. A descendant of Portuguese crypto-Jews, he converted to Judaism in 1920 and sought to help other crypto-Jews return to rabbinic Judaism. Opposition among some families of Marranos led to personal attacks on his character which damaged his name and military career.

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