Passover Haggadah – Rio de Janeiro, 1947

Passover Haggadah – Rio de Janeiro, 1947
Passover Haggadah / Hagadá de Péssach, translated and edited by Ruth and Henrique Jusim. Rio de Janeiro: Circulo Bibliófilo Hebráico, 1947. Hebrew and Portuguese.
Traditional Passover Haggadah, partly translated into Portuguese. The Haggadah is accompanied by illustrations by Siegmund (Asher) Forst, Saul Raskin, Ze'ev Raban, Jacob Steinhardt, Gustave Doré and others. Copy no. 95 of the Haggadah (the total number of copies in not noted), dedicated to Gabriel Doron (with a handwritten dedication, from 1966, signed by Henrique Jusim).
Henrique Jusim (1916-1986), born in Sokyriany, in a province of Serbia; a Zionist activist and one of the leaders of the pioneering Socialistic youth movement "Gordonia". In 1937, he immigrated to Brazil. He served as the principal of the Jewish high-school in Rio de Janeiro and taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the Jewish seminar for teachers in the town, alongside his work as a translator and publisher and his activity at the Jewish Agency in the fields of education and culture. He immigrated to Israel in 1968.
[80] pp. 23 cm. Good conditions. Minor stains. Minor blemishes to binding, mainly along the spine.