Ascamot, or Laws and Regulations of the Jewish Congregation Entitled Shaar Ashamaim in London [i.e., the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation]

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

J. Wertheimer

London

1831

English text

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo Judaica, p. 297, no. 8

Laws governing the internal administration of London’s celebrated Bevis Marks Synagogue. The first edition of the Ascamot was published in 1785, in Portuguese. The present edition is the third following an earlier edition of 1819. Two subsequent editions were issued in 1850 and 1872. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 28-32 and 188-190