| AdminHistory | Born London, sixth child of the renowned Dutch cantor David Aaron de Sola , leader of the English Sephardim, 1825; studied at Jews College; moved to Canada, 1847; minister, Sheerith Israel congregation, Montreal, 1847-1882; Hebrew lecturer, McGill University, 1848, professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1853, honorary doctor of laws, 1858; combined modernism with uncompromising Orthodoxy; died New York, 1882. Publications include a series of Sephardic prayer books; 'A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years: Montreal' (1854, with Jacques J. Lyons); 'The Sanatory Institutions of the Hebrews as Exhibited in the Scriptures and Rabbinical Writings and as Bearing upon Modern Sanatory Regulations' (1861). |
| CustodialHistory | Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London. |