The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews…, Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur [Abraham Mears], London: Printed for J. Wilcox, 1738.

In his preface, Abraham Mears writing under the biblical pseudonym, Gamaliel ben Pedahzur, states that that he has collected the ceremonies in order "to instruct the illiterate of their nation, in what they are ignorant of at present," and that his translation of the prayers, is "as literal as possible." He apologizes for the few typographical errors for "had I lived in Town to have been nearer the Press, I would have visited the printer oftener..." According to Cecil Roth, the doyen of British Jewish history, Mears, an apostate member of one of the oldest families of the Ashkenazi community in England, provided a “description of Jewish rites and ceremonies, though marred by malice and lack of knowledge, [which] is of considerable interest, giving as it does a graphic, detailed, and not unamusing picture of London Jewish life . . . in the first half of the eighteenth century."