Solomon Henry Jackson (died 13 Feb 1847,
New York City
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) was a pioneer
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printer
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.
Biography
An immigrant from
England
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, Jackson settled in
Pike County, Pennsylvania
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, and married the daughter (Helen Annie Miller) of a local
Presbyterian
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minister.
In the 1820s, Jackson moved to
New York City
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. Thereafter, he established the city's first
Hebrew
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printing press
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.
Jackson published the first Jewish
periodical
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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.) He also published the first Hebrew prayer book in the United States, and the first ''
Haggadah
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'' in the United States.
References
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Goldman, Yosef Yosef Goldman (1942 – August 4, 2015) was a scholar of American Jewish history and the co-author of the two-volume reference work, '' Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography'' (2006). This work is usually cited b ...
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External links
S.H. Jackson, ed. ''The Jew; being a defence of Judaism against all adversaries, and the attacks of Israel's Advovate.'' 1824
Jewish printing and publishing
1840s deaths
Year of birth missing
English emigrants to the United States
American people of English-Jewish descent
Jewish American writers
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