Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by his son, David Pardo
AUCTION 11 |
Tuesday, November 28th,
2000 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 113
PARDO, JOSEPH
Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by his son, David Pardo
Amsterdam: Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi 1686
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
In his introduction, David Pardo explains that he found the text of the work among the manuscripts of his deceased father. It also appeared in a Spanish translation (Amsterdam, 1689) a language with which the presumed prospective readers had a better acquaintance
Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation London, a post to which his son succeeded him. According to A. Hyamson; “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola.....The younger Pardo was...a remarkably accurate reader of the prayers, and throughout the twenty years of his tenure of office, there is no record of his having been fined for errors for which members of the concregation were always on the watch.“ A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 78-9.