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.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

S.H. Jackson

New York

1827

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 with initials: “H. H. V’. A.” From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool.

Singerman, 447; Goldman, 35; Rosenbach, 291 (illus).

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.