Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by his son, David Pardo

PARDO, JOSEPH

Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi

Amsterdam

1686

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers device (cf. Ya’ari’s Printers Marks no.66)

Vinograd, Amsterdam 534; Fuks, Amsterdam 362

In his introduction, David Pardo explains that he found the text of the work among the manuscripts of his deceased father. Despite the fact Amsterdam’s rabbis supposedly protected the rights of translation for a period of ten years, a Spanish translation did appear in Amsterdam in 1689. 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. Dedication to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London: Abraham Israel Enriques, Jacob Gomez Serra, and Aaron Franco Pacheco. Approbations of Hahamim of Amsterdam, Isaac Aboab, Jacob Sasportas, and Solomon de Oliveira, followed by the haskamah of Moses Judah Hakohen of the Ashkenazic congregation of Amsterdam.