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Jacques Judah Lyons papers 1705-1950 1705-1885.

1705-1950

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Papers of Jacques Judah Lyons, hazzan, rabbi and community leader. Lyons was born in Suriname and emigrated to Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Minister of the New York Congregation Shearith Israel for 38 years, he gathered extensive materials on early Jewish history in the United States, Canada and the West Indies. His papers include material relating to Jews in North and South America generally and more specifically to the Congregation Shearith Israel and Jews in New York, the Touro Synagogue and cemetery and Jews in Newport, Rhode Island, Philadelphia and the West Indies. The papers include mss., newspaper clippings, three scrapbooks, five notebooks, photographs and log book of the ship Sansom. The collection also contains material relating to Jews in the wars of the United States, correspondence of the Jews with George Washington and items relating to Haym Salomon, sermons by Lyons, a ms. prayer book used in Suriname and a guide for religious ceremonies at Congregation Shearith Israel, letters written during the Civil War period and correspondence relating to the personal life and career of Lyons.

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