Ceremonies, Customs, Rites, and Traditions of The Jews,

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Hyam Isaacs was born in 1780 as Avraham Chaim Isaacs. He married Amelia Woolf in 1805 at the Great Synagogue; the couple had five children. The whole family converted to Christianity in 1814. After his conversion Isaacs published a few works extolling his newly found Christian beliefs - this work being the first, followed by A solemn and affectionate Address to the Jews, clearly demonstrating... that Jesus Christ is the only and true Messiah in 1835, a second edition of the Ceremonies in 1838, and The Awakening of the Jews from Their Slumbers: Together with Traditionary Tales, Etc in 1842. In 1847 Isaacs committed suicide at the age of 69. Since he was also a prominent patent inventor his death and the coroner's inquest were covered by the local newspapers: 'On Saturday last an Inquest was taken before John Warren, Esq., Coroner for Exeter, at the Royal Oak, Milk-street, on the body of Hyam Isaacs, between 60 and 70 years of age, who some years ago acquired no small notoriety from being paraded about at religious meetings as a converted Jew, and since which he appears to have lived comfortably without following any business; and about three weeks since returned to this city from Southampton. He had invented a means for preventing accidents from collision on railways, and also an improvement of the buffers, but of which – (as has happened to many others before him,) – the world does not appear to have thought so highly as himself. This preyed on his spirits, and under circumst

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