(Abendana, Isaac). The Jewish Kalendar.

Of Marrano origin, Isaac Abendana (c. 1640-c. 1710) taught Hebrew, first at Cambridge and later at Oxford. Abendana’s Calendars ran for eight years from 1692 until 1699. More than indicated by the title, appended to each of the Calendars is an essay of Jewish interest. Thus, following our calendar is a lengthy exposition, “A Short Account of the Courts of Judicature Among the Jews,” whose material is culled from the Talmudic Tractate Sanhedrin. See A. M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p. 60 and I. Abrahams, “Isaac Abendana’s Cambridge Mishnah and Oxford Calendars” in: JHSE Transactions, Vol. VIII (1915-1917), p. 118 (vii).