Service for the First Nights of Passover, London 1862 
סדר הגדה לליל שמרים - Haggadah
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- Lot Number 46882
- Title (English) Service for the First Nights of Passover
- Title (Hebrew) סדר הגדה לליל שמרים
- Note Haggadah
- Author R. Abraham Perira Mendes
- City London
- Publisher P. Vallentine
- Publication Date 1862
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1325846
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Physical Description
[3], II, 58, [1]: 57, [1] pp., 8vo., 175:111 mm., nice margins, light age, food and wine staining. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.Detail Description
R. Abraham Perira Mendes (February 9, 1825, Kingston, Jamaica – April 18, 1893, New York), English rabbi and educator. 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 Hazzan" 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 moved 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.
Hebrew Description
כמנהג אשכנז ופולין. עם העתקה חדשה בלשון ענגליש על ידי... אברהם ב"ר יצחק פרירא מינדיז...בשנת מי ימלל ג'ב'ו'ר'ו'ת' ה''
עברית ואנגלית, עמוד מול עמוד, בספירת-עמודים מקבילה. הדינים באנגלית בלבד.
תרגום אשכנזי של הפיוט "אדיר הוא".