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Order of Service in the Synagogue in Crosby Street, on Sunday Heshvan 25, November 7, 5613. On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Chevrah Chessed Ve’Emeth.

Auction 55 · Lot 17

Order of Service in the Synagogue in Crosby Street, on Sunday Heshvan 25, November 7, 5613. On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Chevrah Chessed Ve’Emeth.

Estimate
$1,500–$2,500
Hammer price
$1,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

H. Frank

Place

(New York)

Publication

1853

Description

Titled in English, otherwise mostly in Hebrew.

references

Singerman 2798.

summary

Afternoon Prayers followed by poems as well as a “Hashkavah” for the late Revd. Gershom M. Seixas, upon the 50th anniversary of the Congregation’s Burial Society. Established in 1654, New York’s Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Congregation Shearith Israel), the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, moved to Crosby Street in the year 1834 before relocating in 1860.
Single leaf. Silked. Folio.
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