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53 ;

53 }iis

Tin: successors,

Solomon

of rabbinical

<'i)llection

and Datd Cohen

SALP;.t

d'Azkvedo. he took part

i:VlSH

.1

in the

preparation of a

appeared

decisions, which

in nine vobinies pidilislii'd in

Amsterdam

under Ibc title "Peri 'Ez Ilavvim of the Tree of Life).

and

1781!.

in 1732 " (Fruits

linii.ioiiRArMY: MmintKirhrift, Ix. 34; Kayscrllng, In Rev. /5(, Juircd. xlli.272; Idem, in Steinnchncidcr-Fcstuchrtft, pp. 89,90.

M. K.

ABENDANA, ISAAC

Cambridge



There he

for <).ford.

favor wilii thi' ]U'esident of Hertford he iledicateil the .Jewish calen!t">. HilMl. and later. Besides these calendars and the I;alin translation of the Mishnah (which manuscrijit is in the Cambridge Libniry and consists of si. large quarto volumes), Abendana wrote a comprehensive work entitled "l^iscourses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews" (1700). This work is an elaboration of the essays already commenced in the calendars. Like liis brother, he entered into eoiTes])o!iilence with several of the Christian savants <if his time; and there are e.tant two letters addressed to IBu.torf the younger, in Hestooil in

lii.irli

('olle.ge. to

brew and

whom

I^atin respectively.

Iliiii.KKiR.iPiiY: r'armnlv, Mi'ilichw Juih.p.l'^: Pee. 'i, 12, anil M. ISTll; SIniiiT. la Tr.'Jeu: 111.42:

Uev.

echrijt, p.

t'(. Jiili'oi,

Jeir.Wmlil, HM. Soc. Ent). xlll.272ct«t he accepted a call as hakam to Amsterdam. In the same year, on May 3. he delivered a memorial address in honorof the JIaranos Nufa'Z and Almeyda Menial, who had sulTcred marlyrdom at the slake in Cordova. few years later lie ]niblislied, in coniieclion with his brother Isaac, the liible commentary " .Miklal Yoti " of Holomon ben Mehk. together " with his own additions known as "Lekel .Shikl.iah ((ileanings). The work was published by subscription at Amslerdam in KiUO, and a second edition in 1'.'.

1

r,m.

The Abeiidanas were

the

fii-st

Jewish authors to

com|)el apiirobatioii from eonteniporary Christian scholars, such as Johaiin HiiMorf in HilscI. .lohanii occejus and Jacob (iolius in Leydeii. and others. In Leydeli, whither Jacob Abendana had gone to obtain subscribers, he met Professor .Vnloii llulsiiis. whom he assisted very inalerlally in his driinlal (

studies,

and who endeavored

to coiiverl

Jacob

lo

Abelites

Abensur, Daniel

They maintained an epistolary dispute concerning the meaning of Haggai. ii. 9. "which correspondence lasted from Sept. 24, lO-VJ, to June Hi. 16«0, and was published by Hulsius in 10(59. The attempt to convert him induced Abendana to translate tile "Ciizari" of Jid.mi ii.v-Levi into Spanish. This translation is highly prized for the care with which it was made. In "107.") Jacob delivered an address at the dedication of the great new synaChristianity.

gogue

Tcaclier of Ilibrew at Oxfiird riiivirsiiy. linrn al)out the nuddle of the seventeentli century; died about 1710. lie was a brother of the celebrated Jacob Abendana. the distini;nislicd Siianisli physician and liakani. Having lived at IlamburiT and Leyilin, where he studied inedicini', he settled in Entrland, and there became lirot'essor of Hebrew at Oxiord I'niversity. Previously to this he had been at Cambridnc wherc it appears from the books of the senior bursarof Trinity C'ollefie that one "Abendana the .Jew " (presumably Isjiac) received from the college £(> (about §30) per annum durin.s the years ICIi-KUi. He taught Hel)rew and Habbinie to any one who miyht enjrage to jiay for his services, but he was not in any sense the incunilient of a chair at the vuiiviisity. The retainini; fees paid by Trinity Collei;e and the ])aynienls from priv:ile jnipils do not appear to have provide<l sulhcient funds for Inm, as in 1(!71 lie mad<' a Latin tj-jiuslation of the wliole Slishnah. which he sold to the university; and a))pareiitly when this work was linished he left

ENCYCLOPEDIA

He was

Amsterdam.

called lo London Sii.vA in lOSO. anil sjiid to have completed the translation of the Mishnah into Spanish. He died without issue in London. Sept. 12, 109."). and was interred in the at

Hakam

succeed there he is to

DA

Josiit A

Portuguese buiial-gnaind

Mile End.

at

His pub-

Works are: "Cuzari, Libro de Grande Sciencia Traduzido, y Mucha Doclrina. del Ebrayco en Esjianol, Comentado porel H. H. R. Yaha" (Cuzari. a Book of Great Wisdom cob Abendana and Plentiful Doctrine, Translated from the Hebrew into Spanish, and Explained by the Hakam Jacob Abendana), Amsterdam. 1003; ".Sermon en Jlenioria di Aliraham Nun. Benial in Elogiosque Zelosos Delished

.

dicarou en d

.

.

.

.

BiBi.io(R. iY: Rsorllng, Bibt.

}<(';.

M. K.

ABENDANA, JOSEPH: A

refugee from

the

rage of the Spanish liii|uisilion who settled in Hamburg: he was lelateil to the hakam of thai name.

A

relative,

among Jacob

Mordecai Abendana, was

jironiinent

the founders of the Hamburg Bank, in 1G20. and Isaac, the sons of .loseph Abendana. who

were born in Spain (not in Hamburg, assume as.sert), devoted theiiisi Ives to learned pursuits. M. K.

ABEN-EZRA.

See Ji paii and Mosks mix Ezra.

ABENGDOR

(Abigdor, Abengedor)

KANAH. See K v .Vi-.tooou. ABENHEIM, JOSEPH Violinist

and orchesdied Jan. 18. lirst musical instruction from Sehldsser, and in his early youth In 1S2.") he bejoined an orchestra at JIannheim. came a member of the royal orchestras al Stuttgart, After jilaying bollial the palaccandal thetheater. a sojourn in Paris ami some further stmly under Ueieha, Abenheim returned to Stuttgart, where he In often replaced the ollicial leader Lindpaintner, l.s,")4 he was put at the head of ln> orchestra. It was

tra leader: born al 1S91, at Sluttgarl.

Worms in 1804; He received his

I

he whodirecled the so-called vaudi'ville performance given bv members of the royal family aud the uobilhy.

many songs and

Aiienheim composed

pieces,

among which were two

"Nix'turnes." "Polonaise." ".Songs without AVords." a hymn, "Der Deutsche Pliein"; also several oveiliiies and ballets, as well as llie music for the dnima " Hariadan." whiili was jiroduced at Stuttgart in 1M42. Verv few of his compositions have, however, been published. lliiii.in(iii.I'llv:JII''. cluiiiiiillii-ApUi'ini.

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iii''iiiN,«.v„(irlmnmnn'liwl<'.lS,1I;

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New

V..rk.

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W. M.

ABENHUACAR. See ABENSUR, DANIEL

Wakkau. Sami

.V

ki.

min.

Portti.cuose Jew. wlio

died ill llaniliurg in 1711. At one lime headvanciHl a considerable sum of money lo the Polish t'p'wn. and later became minister ri'sideiii "< 'l. Kin- i.f