Author: Alexander, Levy
Biography:
ALEXANDER, Levy (d 1838: death certificate)
Details are wanting, but he was the son of Alexander Alexander (born ben Judah Loeb), a pioneer in Jewish printing in England. Alexander Alexander died in 1807 but his son Levy (or Levi) was already working as a printer by then. He specialised in cheap Yiddish almanacs and had premises in Whitechapel Road. He fell out with the Chief Rabbi and printed intemperate criticisms of him. He was undoubtedly the man of that name who died on 18 Jan. 1838, "a natural death by the visitation of God," in the German Jews hospital in Mile End Road. His other publications include An Answer to Mr. Joshua van Oven’s Letters on the Present State of the Jewish Poor in London (1802), Memoirs of the Life…of the late Benj. Goldsmid (1808), Alexander’s Hebrew Ritual (1819), and The Holy Bible, in Hebrew and English (1824). (The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History [2011]; The Jewish Encyclopedia 1 [1902]) SR