Seder ha-Tephiloth ke-Minhag ha-Sephardim [Daily Prayers according to Sephardic Rite]

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Naphtali Herz Levi Rophe

Amsterdam

1726

Hebrew. Prayer for the State in Portuguese. Upper cover gilt-tooled: Rev. J.J. Lyons 5636 [1876]

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1294

COPY OF REV. J.J. LYONS OF CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL, NEW YORK. Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877), a native of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, was elected in 1836, Minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City, in which capacity he served for the next thirty-eight years. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 231. In 1857, together with Rev. Dr. Abraham De Sola of Montreal, he published a fifty-year Hebrew calendar.