| AdminHistory | Born Amsterdam, 1796; received a rabbinical diploma in Amsterdam; appointed hazan (cantor) of the London Sephardi community, 1818; married the daughter of Haham Raphael Meldola, 1819; after Meldola's death in 1828 he virtually assumed the rabbinical leadership of the English Sephardim; delivered the first sermon in English at Bevis Marks synagogue, 1831; coeditor of the Orthodox periodical 'The Voice of Jacob' (later taken over by the 'Jewish Chronicle'), 1841; composed tunes for the Sephardi synagogue; influential in organizing the Association for the Promotion of Jewish Literature and other similar bodies; died 1860. Publications include: 'Seder Berakhot' (1829); 'Forms of Prayer According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' (1836-1838); 'The Proper Names in Scripture' (1837); 'Eighteen Treatises of the Mishnah' (with Morris J Raphall, 1842); an English-Hebrew edition of Genesis (with Morris J Raphall and I L Lindenthal, 1844); 'The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' (with Emanuel Aguilar, 1857); and 'The Festival Prayers, according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews' (1860). |
| CustodialHistory | Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London. |