Jacob Raphael Cohen

Jacob Raphael Cohen
Born1738
Barbary Coast[1]
DiedSeptember 9, 1811(1811-09-09) (aged 72–73)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Spouse
Rebecca Luria
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(m. 1764)​

Jacob Raphael Cohen (1738 – September 9, 1811) was a rabbi in England, Canada, and the United States.

He served as rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia from 1784 until his death in 1811.[2] In celebration of Pennsylvania's ratification of the United States Constitution on July 4, 1788, Cohen walked arm-in-arm with two ministers, one of whom was Reverend William White of Christ Church, dean of the clergy of Philadelphia. The records of his marriages, deaths, and circumcisions are an important source of data on early American Jewish ritual and history.[3]

  1. ^ Rome, David (1983). "Cohen, Jacob Raphael". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 5. University of Toronto / Université Laval.
  2. ^ Olitzky, Kerry M. (1996). The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 0-313-28856-9.
  3. ^ "Notable People: Reverend Jacob Raphael Cohen (1738-1811)". Mikvehisrael.org. Congregation Mikveh Israel. Retrieved March 25, 2019.