THE FORM OF DAILY PRAYERS, ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS, TRANSLATED BY SOLOMON HENRY JACKSON, NEW-YORK: S. H. JACKSON, 1826

The first Hebrew prayer book printed in America.

Solomon Henry Jackson (d. ca. 1847) immigrated to the United States from London about 1787, eventually settling in New York, where he became the city’s first Jewish printer, issuing synagogue literature and ephemera virtually without competition. His most important publications were The Jew (1823-1825), an anti-missionary monthly that was America’s first Jewish periodical, the first American Haggadah (1837; see lot 63), and the present siddur. The Hebrew text presented here was revised and corrected by E.S. Lazarus (1788-1844), grandfather of the famous Emma Lazarus, and the English translation was prepared by Jackson based on David Levi’s previous work (see lot 62).