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’Emeth of the K”K Sephardim Shearith Israel.
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 330
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
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’Emeth of the K”K Sephardim Shearith Israel.
New York: S.H. Jackson 1827
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
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’Emeth is the oldest 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.