Gershom Mendes Seixas (January 15, 1745 – July 2, 1816) was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. He served as the hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York City's first Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, for about five decades. 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 Columbia College (previously King's College), the oldest part of New York City's Columbia University.[1]
GershomMendesSeixas (January 15, 1745 – July 2, 1816) was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. He served as the hazzan...
century GershomMendesSeixas – minister of Congregation Shearith Israel Francisco Seixas da Costa – Portuguese diplomat and former politician Vic Seixas (born...
Kursheedt, and Alvin Deutsch (1997–2001). Notable hazanim include GershomMendesSeixas (1768–1776 and 1784–1816), Isaac Touro (1780), Jacques Judah Lyons...
portrayed the Reverend Robert Russell. In 1956, he was cast as Rabbi GershomMendesSeixas in "The Rebel", and as the Rev. Alfred W. Price in "God's Healing"...
Marks, an influential San Francisco educator and civic worker and GershomMendesSeixas Solomons. He had relocated to San Francisco from New York City during...
from New York during the Revolutionary War, with the arrival of GershomMendesSeixas, gave the community sufficient strength to carry out this cherished...
the power of the priesthood. Smith hired Joshua (James) Seixas, son of GershomMendesSeixas and Hebrew school teacher at Congregation Shearith Israel...
inadequate, and steps were taken to secure a more commodious building. GershomMendesSeixas, who had fled from New York to Connecticut, was requested to act...
Sunday, July 7, 1816, on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Mr. GershomMendesSeixas (Philadelphia, 1816) became the first Jewish sermon printed in the...
Sousa Medeiros (1915–1983), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. GershomMendesSeixas (1745–1816), first American born rabbi, patriot, personal friend...
Grace Seixas Nathan (1752–1831) was a Jewish-American poet and a member of a prominent Sephardic family. Grace Seixas was born on November 11, 1752, in...
great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seixas, brother of the famous rabbi and American Revolutionary GershomMendesSeixas of Congregation Shearith Israel,...
and specialized subjects. He learned Hebrew from Joshua Seixas (son of GershomMendesSeixas and Hannah Manuel), whom he may have baptized in a covert...
synagogue in New York City at the time, and befriended its rabbi, GershomMendesSeixas. Seixas came to turn to him for questions on Jewish law due to his years...
Isaac Nieto GershomMendesSeixas Raphael Meldola David de Aaron de Sola Elijah Benamozegh Abraham de Sola Sabato Morais Abraham Pereira Mendes Frederick...
She came from a prominent New York City family, descended from GershomMendesSeixas, minister of New York's Congregation Sherith Israel during the American...
may include those whose bodies were later removed) were: Reverend GershomMendesSeixas (1745–1816), the first American born Jewish spiritual leader Dr...
military officer of the commonwealth. On December 23, 1783, Rabbi GershomMendesSeixas, Simon Nathan ("parnas"), Asher Myers, Barnard Gratz, and Haym Solomon...
clergymen such as John Jay, Samuel Provoost, Leonard Lispenard, GershomMendesSeixas, and John Daniel Gros. It was renamed in a new 1787 charter as the...
Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City following the death of GershomMendesSeixas. Peixotto immigrated to America with his father in 1807 and settled...
been known for his fine voice. Leeser was aware however that Rev. GershomMendesSeixas, the synagogue's first rabbi and congregation founder had delivered...
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