Solomon Henry Jackson was a pioneer American

United States

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 Jewish printer

Printer (publisher)

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An immigrant from England

England

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, Jackson settled in Pike County, Pennsylvania

Pike County, Pennsylvania

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, and married the daughter of a local Presbyterian minister.

In the 1820s, Jackson moved to New York

New York

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. Thereafter, he established the city's first Hebrew printing press

Printing press

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Jackson published the first Jewish periodical in the United States. It was an anti-missionary journal entitled The Jew. He also published the first Hebrew prayer book in the United States, and the first Haggadah in the United States.