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.

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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.

Prayers in Hebrew with English translation facing. Introductory compendium of Jewish laws in English interspersed with Hebrew keywords. Penciled annotations. In Hevra Hesed Ve’Emeth binding, upper cover tooled: “H.H.V’.A.” From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. pp. 12, (1 blank); (3), ff. 4-18. Browned, Contemporary gilt-stamped calf, spine rubbed and slightly chipped. 8vo. Singerman, 447; Goldman, 35; Rosenbach, 291 (illus).

New York: S.H. Jackson 1827

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

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.