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Pinto, Isaac

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Pinto, Isaac (1720–1791)

US merchant, scholar, and patriot. A Sephardic Jew, he appeared first as a merchant in Connecticut and then to have settled in New York City by 1751. He translated the Evening Service of Roshashanah and Kippur (1761) and the Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah, and Kippur (1766), the first Jewish prayer books to be printed in the USA. An ardent patriot, he signed the Non-Importation Act (1765). He was buried in New York, New York.



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