Papers of Seixas Family undated, 1746-1911, 1926, 1939

Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) traces its history to September 25, 1740 when the Province of Pennsylvania and Thomas Penn authorized a permanent burial ground for the entire Jewish community of Philadelphia. Jews in Philadelphia in the 1740s and 1750s organized themselves informally for services. In 1761 they acquired a Torah scroll and met in a private residence on Sterling Alley, then between Cherry and Race Streets and Third and Fourth Streets. The congregation moved ...

Mendes, H. Pereira (Henry Pereira), 1852-1937

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Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel, 1877-1920. From the description of Papers, 1877-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155471166 Orthodox Sephardic rabbi and communal leader. From the description of Collection, 1877-1908 [microform]. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 47961736 Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City; Orthodox and Zionist leader; co-founder of Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the d...

Mr. Hyman Marks

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Pool, David de Sola, 1885-1970

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A leading figure in American Jewish life during the 20th century, Reverend Dr. David de Sola Pool was minister of Congregation Shearith Israel (the first Jewish congregation to be established in North America) in New York City and President of the Union of Sephardic Congregations. Rev. Dr. de Sola Pool married Tamar Hirschensohn (1890-1981) in 1917. Tamar H. de Sola Pool was National President of Hadassah (1939-1943) and active in the National Council of Jewish Women and World Zionist Organizati...

Nicholas Low

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Mr. Kofson (?)

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Leonard Bleecker

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Mr. Henry McDermott

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Beth Shalome

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Gerstein, Louis C.

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Menken, Alice Davis, 1870-1936

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Alice Davis Menken (1870-1936) Alice Davis was born on August 4, 1870, in New York City. She was the third of the seven children of Michael Marks and Miriam Maduro Peixotto Davis, and was descended from several prominent European Sephardic families. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution on her mother's side. Harold Davis Menken, was born in 1895 . In 1896, she helped to establish the Sisterhood of Congregation Shearith Israel, and she s...

Seixas, Isaac Benjamin, 1782-1839

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Mr. Nicholas Low

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Henry Ellis

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Angel, Marc

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Sephardic rabbi and author who was born and reared in Seattle and later settled in New York. From the description of Oral history interview with Marc Angel, July 18, 1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50864096 ...

Hyman Marks

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Seixas family

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The papers constitute a history of some of the descendants of Isaac Mendes and Rachel Levy Seixas, Portuguese Jews who immigrated to America circa 1734 . Several offspring of Isaac and Rachel Seixas held important roles in early synagogues and colonial Jewish affairs in New York ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Newport, Rhode Island ; and Richmond, Virginia . Many were active in the establishment of civic economic institutions, such as the Bank of Rhode Island and the New York Stock E...

John Johnson

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Moses Seixas

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Seixas, Gershom Mendes, 1745-1816

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Gershom Mendes Seixas was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. The first American Jewish clergyman to deliver sermons in English, Mendes Seixas became known for his civic activities as well as his defense of religious liberty, participating in the inauguration of President George Washington and helping found King's College, the precursor of New York City's Columbia University....

Nissim, Yitzhak, 1896-1981

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Committee of Safety for the Province of New York

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Joseph Jessurun Pinto

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John Price, Jr.

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Richard Platt

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William Price

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Jonas N. Phillips

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Isaac Hillel Judah

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Columbia College

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Menken, Mortimer Morange

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Henry McDermott

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Phillips, Naphtali, 1773-1870

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Rabeinu Gershom

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H. Van Allen

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Gaon, Solomon

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Lyons, Jacques J. (Jacques Judah), 1813-1877

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Jacques Judah Lyons (1813-1877) Jacques Judah Lyons, hazan, rabbi, and community leader, was born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana on Menahem 25, 5573 (August 25, 1813). His parents, Judah Eleazar and Mary Asser Lyons, had emigrated to Surinam from Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Jacques education was limited to the institutions the Dutch colony could afford; however, he spoke several languages in addition to Dutch, including Hebrew, English, German, and French and possessed a ...

Raish Lakish

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William Rogers

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Meyer, Isidore S.

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Isidore Solomon Meyer was born on November 19, 1903 in New London, Connecticut to Rachel Pearl (Ritt) Meyer and Max Meyer, recent immigrants from a region identified alternately as Russia, Lithuania or Poland on official documentation. In 1918, Meyer moved to Manhattan to attend the Talmudical Academy, graduating in 1922 and going on to earn a B.A. from the City College of New York in 1925. He completed graduate work at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), ...

Shearith Israel

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Cardozo, Abraham Lopes

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Abraham Lopes Cardozo Abraham Lopes Cardozo was born in Amsterdam, Holland on September 27, 1914. As the great-grandson of the Chief Rabbi of the Sephardim in Amsterdam (who had preached the last sermon in Portuguese, and who was later decorated by the King of Holland), and as the son of Joseph Lopes Cardozo, leader of the boy's choir of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, it was fitting that he read his first Haftorah at the age of seven in that same synagogue. He att...

Edward Easton

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