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Isaac Levi (translation)

Isaac Levi (Heb: ר׳ יצחק ב״ר עקיבא | Rabbi Yitsḥaq ben Rabbi Akiva) (ca. 1770? -1839) was a teacher of Hebrew, pioneering English translator of Jewish liturgy, and an erudite Jewish scholar in England at the turn of the 19th century. Little is known of his life save that he prepared "revised" English translations of the haggadah and maḥzorim compiled by David Levi (no relation). As with David Levi his publications served as the basis for haggadot, siddurim, and maḥzorim published by others. On title pages, he is sometimes listed as a "professor and teacher of the Hebrew language." As he was not appointed to any university, this likely means that he taught or tutored Christian Hebraists and other interested students. Details provided to Avraham Roos by Henry Roche indicate that he left the publishing world in the mid-1830s to work as a Hebraist responsible for the Hebrew manuscripts in the library of Prince Augustus Frederick, H.R.H. Duke of Sussex. Roos notes that Isaac's use of the word ענגלאטירא ('English') attests to French influence. Roche notes that despite his surname Levi, Isaac was not a Levite. With his wife Esther, Isaac had five children. We know that over the course of his life he spent time in London and Portsmouth. Roos speculates that the likely cause of Isaac Levi's name being left off of works by David Levi that the former had amended, was probably due to a commercial dispute in the early 1830s with the printer Hyam Barnett (c. 1763–1845).  Isaac Levi's date of birth is not yet known, but we can surmise it to be in the mid- to late 18th century. If you know any more about Isaac Levi's life and career, please contact us. (Many thanks to Avraham Roos and Henry Roche for the details so far discovered.)

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📖 סדר התפלות (אשכנז) | The Form of Daily Prayers, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1830)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

Isaac Levi’s The Form of Daily Prayers according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews (London: M. Phillips, 1830) is a daily, shabbat, and festival prayerbook.


📖 מחזור של שבועות (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor shel Shavuot: The Form of Prayers for the Festival of Pentecost, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1852)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור של שבועות The Form of the Prayers for the Feast of Pentecost According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady


📖 מחזור של פסח (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor shel Pesaḥ: The Form of Prayers for the Festival of Passover, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1852)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור של פסח The Form of Prayers for the Feast of Passover According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady


📖 מחזור של סוכות (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor shel Sukkot: The Form of Prayers for the Festival of Tabernacles, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1852)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור של סוכות The Form of the Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady


📖 מחזור ליום כיפור (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor l’Yom Kippur: The Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement (Musaf, Minḥah, and Neïlah), a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1852)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור ליום כיפור The Form of the Additional and Afternoon Prayers for the Day of Atonement According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady


📖 מחזור ליום כיפור (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor l’Yom Kippur: The Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement (Arvit, Shaḥarit), a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1852)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור מחזור ליום כיפור The Form of the Prayers for the Day of Atonement [Evening and Morning Services] According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady


📖 מחזור לראש השנה (אשכנז)‏ | Maḥzor l’Rosh ha-Shanah: The Form of Prayers for the New Year, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated by Isaac Levi (1807/1848)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Isaac Levi (translation)

מחזור לראש השנה The Form of Prayers for the New Year According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1848, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady



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