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

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts Featuring an Extensive Collection of Rabbinic Autograph Letters.

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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

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

Prayers in Hebrew with English translation facing. Introductory compendium of Jewish laws in English interspersed with Hebrew keywords. pp. 12, (1 blank); (3), ff. 4-18. Browned, trimmed. Recent boards. 8vo. Singerman 447; Goldman 35; Rosenbach 291 (illus).

New York: S.H. Jackson 1827

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Congregation Shearith Israel of New York, established by the members of the first Jewish Community of North America who arrived in 1654, is the oldest congregation in the United States. Its Burial Society, Hevra Hesed Ve’Emeth is the longest existing Jewish philanthropic society in New York. This Compendium was its first publication. See David and Tamar de Sola Pool, An Old Faith In The New World, Portrait of Shearith Israel (1955) pp. 354-57.