(New York). Chevrah Kadisha Pinkas - Jamaica.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,200

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

author

(PINKAS).

Place

Jamaica, Queens

Publication

1929

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew and Yiddish written in a fine calligraphic hand. Exceptional artistic title page by Menachem Schwartz. Followed by Foreword, list of charter members (men and women), rules of engagement.

summary

This Burial Society, established in the Jamaica neighborhood in the New York City Boro of Queens, was an amalgam of two existing Societies: Chevras Ahavas Yisroel and Chevras Mishkan Yisroel.

pp. 7 (excluding a great many blanks). Original reverse leather over heavy boards, worn. Thick folio.

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