JACKSON, SOLOMON HENRY JACKSON, SOLOMON HENRY (d. 1847), first
Jewish printer in New York City. His printing shop had both
English and Hebrew type fonts, and he was thus able to print
material in both languages, which he did for the various
congregations of the city. His most important works were The
Form of Daily Prayers, According to the Custom of the Spanish
and Portuguese Jews (1826), a translation of the Sephardi prayer
book into English, and his editorship and publication of The Jew
(1823–25), a monthly, the first Jewish periodical in the United
States. In 1827 he was active in the Ḥevrat Ḥinnukh Ne'arim, a
society to promote Jewish education, and in 1837 he led a
movement to settle Jews on the land. H.B. Grinstein, Rise of the
Jewish Community of New York 1654–1860 (1945), index. [Hyman B.
Grinstein] Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group.
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