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[MEARS, ABRAHAM.] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their Synagogues and Families on all Occasions...
[MEARS, ABRAHAM.] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their Synagogues and Families on all Occasions... Translated immediately from the Hebrew, by Gamaliel ben Pedahzur, Gent.
xiv, 291, [7] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, lettering piece off, front joint cracked, cords intact; stamp of Regius College, Oxford, on title verso (released). London: J. Wilcox, 1738
xiv, 291, [7] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, lettering piece off, front joint cracked, cords intact; stamp of Regius College, Oxford, on title verso (released). London: J. Wilcox, 1738
- Notes: first edition. " 'Gamaliel ben Pedahzur, Gent'... was a pseudonym of Abraham Mears, an apostate member of one of the oldest families of the Ashkenazi community in England. The volume is satured with malice, having little object other than to cast ridicule upon the author's former coreligionists. The translation... is the earliest integral rendering of the Jewish liturgy in English... The introductory description of Jewish rites and ceremonies... though marred by malice and lack of knowledge, is of considerable interest, giving as it does a graphic, detailed, and not unamusing picture of London Jewish life... in the first half of the eighteenth century"--Roth, The Great Synagogue (1950), page 73-74. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, page 302.
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