Ha-Lapid הלפיד

N.° 100                        PORTO - Luas de Julho e Agosto - 5700 (1940 e.v.)                      ANO XIV
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DIRECTOR E EDITOR: -A. C. DE BARROS BASTO (BEN-ROSH)   ||   COMPOSTO E IMPRESSO NA IMPRENSA MODERNA, L.DA
      Redacção na Sinagoga Kadoorie Mekor Haim         ||                 Rua da Fábrica, 80
           Rua Guerra Junqueiro, 340 - Porto           || ------------------- P O R T O -------------------
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O NOSSO ESPECIAL CENTENÁRIO

"HALAPID", n.° 100

by PAUL GOODMAN

         A Tribute to CAP. ARTHUR
         CARLOS DE BARROS BASTO.

 
 

The hundredth issue of "Halapid" is an event which deserves special commemo-
ration. Far about 15 chequered and eventful years this journal has appeared in spíte
of difficulties that at times seemed insuperable. Undaunted by all obstacles, however,
the gallant Editor has carried on his self-imposed task with a tenacity of purpose which
has marked the whole of his Jewish public life. He has borne the whole brunt of
editing this modest organ of the Marranos in Portugal-a periodical unique in Jewish
journalism-and has been likewise its main, and often its sale, contributor. Its pages
contain valuable material for the history of the Jews in Portugal, but the Jewish historian
will also find in it most interesting facts relating to the latter-day Jewish Revival in
that country.

"Am Israel Hai ("The Jewish People Lives!") is the latest declaration that has
made its round throughout the world-wide Jewish Diaspora, and we may now say truly
that among the Remnant of Israel in Sepharad that escaped the terrors of the Inquisition
and the corroding influences of centuries, there, too, Israel lives.

When in 1909 I wrot my "History of the Jews" (which has been made available
to the Marranos in a Portuguese translation), I then recorded that there was no longer
any trace of the former Jews and Judaism in Spain and Portugal. In 1939, when I
issued the 7th edition of that work, I was, happily, able to refer to the resurrecion of
Judaism in that part. There was, indeed, only a slight flicker of light that shone in the
Drevailing darkness, but this NER TAMID (Perpetual Light) had been lovingly tended
these many years by the gallant Captain, Who, as a true Israelite, worthy of his Jewish
ancestors, has remained faithful at his post. No obloquy, not even the defection of
friends, could move him to forsake the faith that is in him. May he long be spared in
strength an in good heart to keep the torch of Judaism alight and aloft.