Seder Hanikur [on the porging of meat]

SORESINA, JACOB BEN JOSEPH

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1595

FIRST EDITION Text with illustrations and translation of terms into Italian, Spanish and German, all in Hebrew characters.

Vinograd Venice 807; Habermann Di Gara 153

The author learned his trade in Cracow studying under the tutelage of Tzvi Yaakov Buchtner, author of comprehensive notes to Yaakov Weil’s Shechitoth Ubedikoth. When Soresina visited Italy he noticed that the work of Shechitah was performed by ignorant butchers who “do not know the difference between the various kosher and non-kosher parts of the hindquarters” (perhaps this is the root of the expression “they don’t know the difference between their ass and their elbow’!” ) Soresina found this Shechitah problem to also be rampant in Turkey thus the tril-ingual translation of the present work. He hoped Seder Hanikur would result in bringing the status of Kashruth to a superior standard