Seder Haggadah LeLeil Shimurim kminhag ashkenaz vePolin im haataka khadash bilshon Inglish al yedey haTzair Avraham ben Rabbi Yitzhak Pereira Mendes. SERVICE FOR THE FIRST NIGHTS OF PASSOVER according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. With a compendium of the laws relating to the festival, and its observances; copious explanatory notes and a new English translation by the Rev. A. P. Mendes.

Mendes, Rev. A. P. [Abraham or Avraham Pereira], translation by

Published by Printed and published by P. Vallentine, 9, Huntley Street, Bedford Square, W.C., and 37, Duke Street, E.C., 1878

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Hebrew and English title pages. Third edition, revised and corrected. 5638 ? 1878. Yudlov 1504. With a Jewish-German translation of Adir Hu. Complete. Mis-paginated. [1-2], ii,[1-3],4-37, 39-51, [1]. = 54 leaves. Front paste down has signature in old fountain pen ink "W. Stoloff." Abraham Pereira Mendes was an English rabbi and pedagogue. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on February 9, 1825 and died in New York April 18, 1893. He was the first master of the Beth Limud School of Kingston, but resigned in order to prepare in London, England, for the vocation of preacher and rabbi. He studied under Dr. Meldola, the dayyan, and the Rev. D. A. de Sola, "the learned ?azzan" of the Sephardic community, and received his diplomas. He returned to Jamaica and became for a short time assistant to the Rev. Isaac Lopez, minister of the Kingston Sephardic congregation, but was soon called from that position to be the minister of the Montego Bay community. There he stayed until his wife's failing health compelled him, in 1851, to return to her milder native climate. Mendes was then elected minister and preacher in the Birmingham (Eng.) congregation, and remained there until 1858, when he removed to London, became head of the Neveh Zedek for six years, and established Northwick College, a school for Jewish youth. He continued meanwhile his ministerial duties and literary labors, and on the death of Haham Artom acted as preacher and dayyan for the Sephardic community of London. He was called to the ministry in the Newport (Rhode Island) congregation by the guardian congregation Shearith Israel of New York in 1883, and continued its minister until his death ten years later. He was the first among the Sephardim to publish a volume of sermons in English (1855). He translated the Daily Prayer-Book of the German Jews (Valentine's edition), and finished the translation of the Festival and Holy Day Books left incomplete by the death of Rev. D. A. de Sola. He published, besides, "The Law of Moses," "Post-Biblical History of the Jews" (to fall of Jerusalem), "Interlineary Translation of the Prayer-Book" (German), and the Haggadah. He married Eliza, a daughter of Rev. D. A. de Sola of London.

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• Title: Seder Haggadah LeLeil Shimurim kminhag ashkenaz vePolin im haataka khadash bilshon Inglish al yedey haTzair Avraham ben Rabbi Yitzhak Pereira Mendes. SERVICE FOR THE FIRST NIGHTS OF PASSOVER according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. With a compendium of the laws relating to the festival, and its observances; copious explanatory notes and a new English translation by the Rev. A. P. Mendes.
• Publisher: Printed and published by P. Vallentine, 9, Huntley Street, Bedford Square, W.C., and 37, Duke Street, E.C.
• Publication Date: 1878
• Language: Hebrew
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Third Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 12 ounces
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