Solomon Henry Jackson

Solomon Henry Jackson
Solomon Henry Jackson
Born	England
Died	1847; New York City?
Nationality	American

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

Biography

An immigrant from England, Jackson settled in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and married the daughter of a local Presbyterian minister.

In the 1820s, Jackson moved to New York City. Thereafter, he established the city's first Hebrew printing press.

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.) He also published the first Hebrew prayer book in the United States, and the first Haggadah in the United States.

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References

Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006). ISBN 1-59975-685-4.

External links

S.H. Jackson, ed. The Jew; being a defence of Judaism against all adversaries, and the attacks of Israel's Advovate. 1824

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