Ritual da Ceia Pascal

A most unusual Hagadah edition. Long believed extinct, the Marrano or crypto-Jewish remnant of Northern Portugal experienced a short-lived revival in the first half of the twentieth century primarily due to the indefatigable efforts of Captain Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, himself a Marrano, who indicatively enough Hebraized his last name to “Ben Rosh.” Our Hagadah was produced expressly for the use of the Portuguese Marrano community. As part of the attempt at revitalization, the philanthropically-inclined Kadoorie Family endowed a synagogue for the Marranos in Porto. See C. Roth, History of the Marranos (1932), pp. 370-76; EJ, Vol. IV, col. 261; Vol. XIII, col. 924