S’WILLIAM DAVIDS ONE KNIGHT AND BARONETT,

Paper read before the Jewish Historical Society of England, Julyj, 1936

My story opens in Amsterdam in 1663, three years after the Restora? tion of Charles II to the throne of England. One of the principal Rabbis of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of that city was Haham Jacob Abendana, a Rabbi of great industry and learning, and author of the Spanish version of the Mishna. His brother, Isaac, a great scholar likewise, had that year accepted the invitation of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, to take up his residence there for the purpose of translating the Mishna into Latin, and he continued to be so engaged for the ensuing twelve years.1 In 1667 Isaac Abendana’s finances became involved, and?peace having been declared in July between the English and Dutch forces?Rabbi Jacob visited his brother in England in connection with some bookselling transac? tions, and at the close

Written by

Wilfred S. Samuel,

Published in

Volume 14

1935

Other articles within the volume

• JEWISHH ISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND
• Claude Goldsmid Montefiore
• Memorial Addresses IN HONOUR OF PAST PRESIDENTS
• The Brothers Goldsmid and the Financing of the Napoleonic Wars
• Eliakim ben Abraham (Jacob Hart) An Anglo-Jewish Scholar of the Eighteenth Century
• Pre-Expulsion England in the Responsa
• The Testimony of the London Jewry against theM inisters of Henry III
• Literary Connections between Abravanel and England
• Early Anglo-Jewish Artists
• A Plea for a Genealogical and Historiographical Section of the Jewish Historical Society of England
• S’WILLIAM DAVIDS ONE KNIGHT AND BARONETT,
• THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND
• THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MOCATTA LIBRARY AND THE GUSTAVE TUCK THEATRE
• PREFACE