Congregation Shearith Israel, Records undated, 1755-1996

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Congregation Shearith Israel, Records undated, 1755-1996

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Contains published and manuscript material relating to the activities and administration of the congregation and its subsidiary organizations including reports and weekly bulletins, early financial records and lists of those honored at religious services, copies of resolutions and forms of service and prayers for various occasions in manuscript form. Contains also material relating to the cemetery photographs, the Hebra Hased Va-Amet (the congregational burial society) and to later clergy in the congregation, Henry Pereira Mendes, David de Sola Pool and Louis Coleman Gerstein including published copies of their sermons.

5 linear feet (10 manuscript boxes); 2 oversized folders; 1 MAP folder

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