MENDES, ABRAHAM PEREIRA. Sermons (Delivered to the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation)

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

John Chapman

London

1855

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew. Unopened copy.

"First among the Sephardim to publish a volume of sermons in English." See JE, Vol. VIII, pp. 486-7. Abraham Pereira Mendes (1825-93), a native of Kingston, Jamaica, served as minister of the Montego Bay community until 1851, when he was called to England to lead the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation. In 1858 he relocated to London, becoming Dayan of the Sephardic community. Finally, from 1883 until his death a decade later, he ministered to Cong. Jesuat Israel of Newport, Rhode Island. His son, Henry (Haim) Pereira Mendes, minister of Cong. Shearith Israel of New York, was instrumental in the founding in 1897 of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of the United States and Canada.