Principios de Instruccion Religiosa y Moral para la Ensenanza de la Juventad Hebrea

JESURUN, ANGEL J

Imprenta Boliviana por D. Salazar

Caracas

1845

Two manuscript leaves laid in at end of Morning and Evening Prayers in Spanish with sporadic use of Hebrew

Unrecorded by both Palau and BMC. Unknown to Kayserling

Exceptionally early Venezuelan Jewish imprint. Jesurun, a member of an old Sephardi family, wrote this catechism of Judaism for Jewish children at a time when no organized Jewish life existed in Caracas. Indeed, the earliest documentation of Jewish settlement in the capital of this South American republic is 1880. See EJ, V 157