SILVA, JOSHUA DA. Discursos Predycaveys que o Docto Haham Yeosuah da Sylva, Pregou no K.K. Sahar a Samaym em Londres

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

Jacob de Cordova

Amsterdam

1688

FIRST EDITION. Portuguese interspersed with Hebrew. Printers device on title. Historiated initials and tailpieces

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 322, no. 1; Kayserling, p. 102

The First Publication of any Jewish Sermon Delivered in England. (Hyamson, p.59) Haham Joshua da Silva, was Ab Beth-Din of London. Nine years after his death, da Silva's widow, published a selection of his synagogue addresses. The final sermon in the book (pp.487-97) is the eulogy delivered in da Silva's memory by his mentor, Haham Isaac Aboab of Amsterdam. Da Silva's sermons contain valuable material concerning the history of the Jews of London. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 41, 59