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Isaac Leeser (translation)
Isaac Leeser (December 12, 1806 – February 1, 1868) was an American, Ashkenazi Jewish lay minister of religion, author, translator, editor, and publisher; pioneer of the Jewish pulpit in the United States, and founder of the Jewish press of America. He produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, as well as editions of the liturgy. He is considered one of the most important American Jewish personalities of nineteenth century America.
Maḥzorim for Pesaḥ & Shavuot | Maḥzorim for Sukkot & Shemini Atseret | Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim | Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer | Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers | Maḥzorim for Rosh haShanah | Seder Seliḥot and Tefilot l'Taaniyot | Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz | Tishah b'Av | Travel | Maḥzorim for Yom haKippurim
Acrostic signature | American Jewry of the United States | Anglo-Jewish | English vernacular prayer | Jewish women | Jewish Women's Prayers | Ladino Translation | Mourning this Broken World | Needing Decompilation | Needing Proofreading | Needing Transcription | Nusaḥ Sefaradi | ocean | קינות Ḳinōt | סליחות səliḥot | Spanish-Portuguese | תחינות teḥinot | teḥinot in English | Three Weeks of Mourning | travel by water | traveler | Western Sepharadim | 11th century C.E. | 16th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 54th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M.
Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Unknown (translation) | Shlomo ibn Gabirol | David de Aaron de Sola | Unknown | Gabriel Kretzmer Seed (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | Jonas Ennery | Arnaud Aron
On Composing Prayers Outside of the Prayerbook, an introduction by Isaac Leeser to “Two Short Prayers” (1851)
Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
Thoughts on petitionary prayer literature (teḥinot) and Jewish women’s prayer literature in the mid-19th century United States of America. . . .
