Solomon Henry Jackson

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Solomon Henry Jackson
Born
England
Died(1846-02-13)13 February 1846
New York City, New York USA

Solomon Henry Jackson (died 13 Feb 1847, New York City) was a pioneer American Jewish printer.

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Biography

An immigrant from England, Jackson settled in Pike County, Pennsylvania, around 1787 and married Helen Miller, the daughter of a local Presbyterian minister. [1]

In the 1820s, Jackson moved to New York City. He was the first Jewish printer there, with a Hebrew printing press which also featured English fonts. [2]

Jackson published the first Jewish periodical in the United States. It was an anti-missionary journal entitled The Jew: being a defence of Judaism against all adversaries, and particularly against the insidious attacks of "Israel's Advocate" ("Israel's Advocate; or, the Restoration of the Jews contemplated and urged", a publication of the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews, was a missionary publication endeavoring to convert Jews to Christianity). Twenty-four issues of The Jew appeared between March 1823 and March 1825. [3] He also published the first Hebrew prayer book in the United States, and the first Haggadah in the United States.

References

  1. ↑ George L. Berlin, "Solomon Jackson's 'The Jew': An Early American Jewish Response to the Missionaries," American Jewish History vol. 71 (Sept. 1981), 13
  2. ↑ Hyman B. Grinstein, "Jackson, Solomon Henry," Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1972), IX, cols. 1189-1190.
  3. ↑ Linda P. Lerman, "Solomon H. Jackson's The Jew: A Contemporary American Jewish Response," Studies in Bibliography and Booklore vol. 20 (1998), 44.


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