are 9 festivals in the Jewish year. Lillie's "solution" to use the 9th of Av instead, can be traced back to much older “Ashkenazi” translations, e.g. in the 1712 Amsterdam Haggadah. However, whereas all the men before her had found it only necessary to censor the nine months of pregnancy, she as a woman felt the need to censor the eight days of circumcision as well. Cowen died in New Rochelle, New York. References Sources Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (YGBooks 2006). . Roos, Avraham. Hanukkah in the Haggadah, blogpost Dec 9, 2016 1851 births 1939 deaths English Jews British emigrants to the United States American people of English-Jewish descent American translators