Solomon Henry Jackson (died 13 Feb 1847, New York City) was a pioneer American Jewish printer.
Biography An immigrant from England, Jackson settled in Pike County, Pennsylvania, around 1787 and married Helen Miller, the daughter of a local Presbyterian minister.George L. Berlin, "Solomon Jackson's 'The Jew': An Early American Jewish Response to the Missionaries," American Jewish History vol. 71 (Sept. 1981), 13
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.Hyman B. Grinstein, "Jackson, Solomon Henry," Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1972), IX, cols. 1189-1190.
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.Linda P. Lerman, "Solomon H. Jackson's The Jew: A Contemporary American Jewish Response," Studies in Bibliography and Booklore vol. 20 (1998), 44. He also published the first Hebrew prayer book in the United States, and the first Haggadah in the United States.
References
Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006). .
External links S.H. Jackson, ed. The Jew; being a defence of Judaism against all adversaries, and the attacks of Israel's Advovate. 1824