(Abendana, Isaac). The Jewish Kalendar

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Printed at the Theater

Oxford

1695

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 158, No. 7; I. Abrahams, "Isaac Abendana's Cambridge Mishnah and Oxford Calendars" in: JHSE Transactions, Vol. VIII (1915-1917), p. 118, iv

Isaac Abendana (c.1640-c.1710), of Marrano origin, taught Hebrew, first at Cambridge and later at Oxford. His Latin translation of the Mishnah, completed in 1675 was never published; the manuscript, consisting of six quarto volumes, remains in the Cambridge University Library.Abendana's Calendars ran for eight years from 1692 thru 1699. More than indicated by the title, appended to each of the Calendars was an essay of Jewish interest. Thus for our year of 1695, we have "A Brief Account of the Jewish Prayers" (pp.1-44). The learned supplements to his Calendars were collected in a single volume, entitled Discourses of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Policy of the Jews (Oxford, 1706, 1709). See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), p. 60