Yudlov 4090 Haggadah Livorno 1948

Yudlov 4090 Haggadah Livorno 1948

1948 Livorno Haggadah with Farhi Family Memorial Inscription

Affixed inside this Haggadah is a French memorial presentation inscription reading:

“This prayer book is offered by Joseph S. Farhi to a M Micheane Edmond in pious memory of his parents Salomon and Leila Farhi.”

The Farhi family was one of the best-known Jewish families of Ottoman Syria and the Levant, associated over generations with commerce, communal leadership, and philanthropy in cities such as Damascus and Beirut.

The inscription very likely refers to Salomon Farhi and Leila Picciotto Farhi, members of a documented Syrian-Lebanese Sephardi familyand their son, Joseph Farhi (born 1897).

By 1948, the historic Sephardi Jewish communities of the eastern Mediterranean — including those in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and North Africa where families such as the Farhis had long been established — were entering a period of profound upheaval following the creation of the State of Israel and the outbreak of the Arab–Israeli conflict.

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