Compendium of the Order of the Burial Service, and Rules for the Mournings. Compiled by Desire, and Published on Account of the Hevra Hesed Ve’Emet of the K”K Sephardim Shearith Israel

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

S.H. Jackson

Place

New York

Publication

1827

Description

Prayers in Hebrew with English translation facing. Introductory compendium of Jewish laws in English interspersed with Hebrew keywords. The Abraham S.W. Rosenbach copy, with his bookplate. Wide margins.

references

Singerman 0447.

summary

Congregation Shearith Israel of New York, established by the members of the first Jewish Community of North America who arrived in 1654, remains the oldest congregation in the United States. Its Burial Society, Hevra Hesed Ve’Emet is the oldest existing Jewish philanthropic society in New York. This Compendium was its first publication. See Goldman, no. 35.

pp. 12, (1 blank); (3), ff. 4-18. Lightly browned, pp. 15-7 supplied from another copy. Contemporary boards. Tall 8vo.

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