Yom Kippur prayer during the Yellow Fever epidemic in New York, by Abraham Mears Isaacks (1803)
Contributed by: Abraham Mears Isaacks, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Composed for the Day of Atonement during the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in New York in 1803,” this prayer was likely composed by Abraham Mears Isaacks (1765-1815). It was published in the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society number 20 (1911), p. 158, as submitted by Rebecca E. Mitchell, one of Isaacks descendants. . . .