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About Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs
marriage https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DHX-YTC
census 1850 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCBD-VB5
census 1855 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K678-1H2
census 1860 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCHP-F1N
census 1870 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M863-6G8 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8V9-WLC
death https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W37-NL9
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82812647
http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magazine/glimpses-ajh/rev-samue...
http://www.isaacs-salant-familytree.org/isaacsgen2.htm
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109199
Descendants of Myer Samuel Isaacs
Generation No. 2
2. SAMUEL MYER2 ISAACS (MYER SAMUEL1) was born January 04, 1804 in Leeuwarden, Holland, and died May 19, 1878 in New York, NY. He married JANE SYMMONS June 25, 1839. She was born 1823 in London, England, and died May 21, 1884 in New York, NY.
Notes for RABBI SAMUEL MYER ISAACS:
- Rev. Samuel Myer Isaacs was born on January 4, 1804 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Holland. He moved with his family to London, England, in 1814. He was a professor of Hebrew and principal of an orphan asylum in London.
- He was chosen to head a Jewish congregation in New York, B'nai Jeshurun. He married Jane Simons (originally Symmons) on June 26, 1839, and then embarked on a 63 - 65 day sea voyage to New York City. Most of his siblings stayed in London, although one brother spent many years as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia.
- Isaacs was the first U.S. rabbi to deliver sermons regularly in English. In 1845, he helped found Congregation Shaaray Tefila. He was a defender of orthodox Judaism against Reform Judaism. He established a weekly newspaper called "Jewish Messenger." He was an ardent abolitionist, driving away many Southern readers of his newspaper.
- He was active in many civic and philanthropic organizations: founder of Board of Delegates of American Israelites (1859), which worked for Jewish civil and religious rights in the U.S. and abroad and treasurer of Palestine Society from its founding in 1854; one of the founders of Jews' Hospital, later named Mt. Sinai Hospital; chosen to represent the Jewish Community at Abraham Lincoln's funeral in New York in April 1866.
- He died on May 18, 1878.
- More About RABBI SAMUEL MYER ISAACS:
- Emigrated: 1814, London, England
- Interesting fact: Rabbi at ShaarayTefila Temple
- Job: Rabbi
Notes for JANE SYMMONS:
Jane Symmons has also been spelled Symons and Simons
Children of SAMUEL ISAACS and JANE SYMMONS are:
6. i. JUDGE MYER SAMUEL3 ISAACS, b. May 08, 1841, New York, NY; d. May 24, 1904, New York, NY.
ii. RABBI JACOB STANLEY ISAACS, b. 1843; d. June 19, 1911.
7. iii. ISAAC S. ISAACS, b. November 01, 1845; d. December 07, 1906.
iv. MIRIAM ISAACS, b. October 20, 1849; d. Unknown.
8. v. ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS, b. August 30, 1851, New York, New York; d. December 22, 1920, Paterson, New Jersey.
vi. REBECCA ISAACS, b. 1857; d. 1890.
vii. RACHEL ISAACS, b. October 10, 1858; d. July 07, 1904; m. V.E. ABECASSIS.
viii. SARAH ISAACS, b. 1859; d. May 26, 1917.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8233-isaacs-samuel-myer
ISAACS, SAMUEL MYER:
By: Cyrus Adler
Rabbi and journalist; born at Leeuwarden, Holland, Jan. 4, 1804; died in New York city May 19, 1878. His father, on the approach of the French army of occupation, removed with his family to London. For a time Isaacs was principal of the old Neweh Ẓedeḳ, now the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum, West Norwood, London, but he left England to accept the ministry of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, then in Elm street, New York city (1839). Regular sermons in English in the synagogue, such as he delivered, were a novelty, Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia being the only other rabbi in the country preaching in English. In 1847 he was chosen minister of the Congregation Shaaray Tefilla, whose members had withdrawn from the Elm Street Synagogue; with that congregation he remained until his death.
Isaacs contributed to the "Asmonean" and the Occident"; in 1857 he founded the "Jewish Messenger" as an organ of conservative Judaism, which he edited until the close of his life. To him was largely due the institution of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, the Hebrew Free School Association, and the United Hebrew Charities, while he was one of the founders and first vice-president of the Jews' (now Mt. Sinai) Hospital. Isaacs took a leading part in the establishment of Maimonides College, Philadelphia, and, while identified with the cause of Conservatism, he was courageous enough to issue, in 1875, a call for ritual reform on the lines suggested by Sabato Morais; his views, however, met with no support.
Bibliography:
- Morais, Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century;
- Jewish Messenger, Supplement, Jan. 6, 1882;
- Magazine of American History, March, 1891;
- The Memorial History of New York, iv.
Samuel was the rabbi of Congregation Sharaay Tefila.
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Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs's Timeline
| 1804 |
January 4, 1804
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Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands
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| 1841 |
May 8, 1841
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New York, New York, NY, United States
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| 1843 |
1843
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New York, NY, United States
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| 1845 |
November 1, 1845
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New York, New York, United States
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| 1849 |
1849
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New York, NY, United States
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| 1851 |
August 30, 1851
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New York, New York, NY, United States
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| 1856 |
1856
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New York, NY, United States
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| 1857 |
1857
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New York, NY, United States
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| 1860 |
April 27, 1860
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New York, NY, United States
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