^{The Rosh Pinah Library. Credit: CIP/CJP}

The Jewish Community of Oporto, founded in the twentieth century, essentially had two authors of books on the Jewish world. They were also early contributors to the community newspaper Ha-Lapid. Their names: Barros Basto and Amílcar Paulo, who died respectively in 1961 and 1983. Both the publications and the organization connected to it disappeared. The newspaper was closed and the Rosh Pinah library, in the Kadoorie synagogue, founded with so much taste and care by the captain, was stripped of books. In the twenty-first century it was in a state of deplorable emptiness, after decades of emptiness and looting in the old building.

In the last decade and a half, the library was fully rehabilitated. Today it has 10,000 books on Jewish themes, and several publications were promoted, with the organization's own stamp or by its leaders. Other works were sponsored, invariably linked to themes on Portuguese Jews in general and Jews in particular. Let's see what happened chronologically, with mention of other activities along with the increase in new books and research.

^{Panel with the image of Captain Barros Basto at the Jewish Museum of Oporto. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2012 – Acquisition of hundreds of books on Jews and Jewish history for the then-bare Rosh Pinah library. Publications were also produced in the scientific Journal For the Study of Antisemitism by the delegate of the community's directorate, David Garrett.

2013 – Acquisition of hundreds of books on Jewish philosophy for the Rosh Pinah library and publications in the Journal For the Study of Antisemitism by the delegate of the directorate.

2014 – Acquisition of hundreds of books on Jewish themes for the Rosh Pinah library and publication, by the community, of the bilingual book (Portuguese and English) "The Oporto Synagogue". This year, the books "On the route of Oporto's Jews", by historian César Santos Silva, and "The Illustrious Jews of Portugal", by journalist Miriam Assor, were also published. They had the support and sponsorship of the community.

^{The Rosh Pinah Library. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2015 – Acquisition of hundreds of books of the same kind mentioned above for the Rosh Pinah library and compilation and publication of lists of names of traditional Sephardic families in communities of Portuguese origin, as well as of the deceased in Jewish cemeteries founded in the nineteenth century in Portugal. At the same time, a small Jewish museum was established on the 1st floor of the central synagogue.

2016 – Acquisition of thousands of books for the Rosh Pinah library. To strengthen the museum, and based on acquired publications and other research carried out in Torre do Tombo, the files of the 842 Jews victimized by the inquisition and the names of families residing in until the fifteenth century were compiled and published.

^{Republication of the 1929 edition of the Ha-Lapid newspaper. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2017 – The acquisition of a large number of books for the Rosh Pinah library continued and the work "The Portuguese Sephardic Diaspora in the light of the Archives of the Jewish community of Oporto" by Arthur Villares was published. It was sponsored by the community.

2018 – Acquisition of hundreds of books for the Rosh Pinah library and publication of the books "Jewish Voices of Portugal – Commentaries on the Torah", by Eli Rosenfeld and Shlomo Pereira, and "Collection of the Work of Amílcar Paulo", by Elvira Mea, which were sponsored by the community.

^{The Jewish Museum of Oporto. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2019 – The acquisition in Israel of more books on Jewish law increased the synagogue library to ten thousand publications. The small Jewish museum abandoned this space to make way for the inauguration of a dignified Jewish museum located in a building in front of the synagogue.

2020 – Inauguration of the Holocaust museum on Rua do Campo Alegre, acquisition of a library for this space, and creation of an official community newspaper – Mazal News – to share inspiring actions based on solidarity and love that encourage the construction of a fairer world.

^{The Holocaust Museum of Oporto. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2021 – Foundation of the community newspaper The Portuguese Jewish News and sponsorship of the works "Ten Myths about the Jews", by Maria Tucci Carneiro, and "Brief History of the Jews of Portugal", by Jorge Martins.

2022 – Publication by the organization of the books "Jewish Community of Oporto, Leader in Europe in the Promotion of Jewish Life and Culture and the Fight against Antisemitism" and "The First Great Antisemitic Conspiracy in the XXI Century" [by Lisbon elites to destroy the community].

2023 – Publication by the organization of the book "Two Millenniums of Jewish Community of Oporto, Chronology 1923-2023". [Never before had the history of the modern community been written in any decade.]

^{Besides thousands of books, the Rosh Pinah Library also houses the paintings from the collection from Jewish Community of Oporto. Credit: CIP/CJP}

2024 – Republication, by the community, of the newspaper Ha-Lapid, formerly directed by Barros Basto, and publication of the books "The Plan!" [of Lisbon elites to destroy the community] and "Journalistic corruption in Portugal" [with the same purpose], to which are added two other publications, linked to the same theme, by Board member David Garrett, entitled "He Made the Law! - Campaign Against the Jews" and "Good Jew/Bad Jew Strategy"

2025 – Publication by the community of the book "Inquisitorial Process in the XXI Century – Portugal" and also the book “Scheme to Silence and Persecute: Jewish Works in Portugal”. The newspaper The Portuguese Jewish News reached the figure of 1500 published news items this year.