Basto, A. C. de Barros
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
באשטו, ארתור קרלוש דה בארוש
Name (Latin)
Basto, A. C. de Barros
Other forms of name
Basto, Arthur Carlos de Barros
Barros Basto, A. C. de
Ben Rosh
Ben-Rosh, Arthur
De Barros Basto, Arthur Carlos
Barros Basto, Arthur Carlos de
Rosh, Arthur Ben-
Ben-Rosh, A. (Arthur)
Date of birth
1887-12-18
Date of death
1961-03-08
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Ben-Rosh, 1997:
- LC data base, Jun. 8, 1998
- LCN: Basto, A.C. de Barros; note: 1887-1961
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Wikipedia description:
Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (Hebrew: אברהם ישראל בן-ראש; Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) (18 December 1887 – 8 March 1961) was a Portuguese military officer and writer, who published several works related to Judaism. He was an important Jewish leader and one of the people who established the Jewish Community in Porto and assisted the construction of the Kadoorie Synagogue, the largest synagogue in the Iberian Peninsula. Furthermore, he helped the return of Crypto-Jews to the Jewish people and, during World War II, helped Jewish refugees escape the Holocaust.
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