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(PINKAS). > Chevrah Kadisha Pinkas - Jamaica. 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. pp. 7 (excluding a great many blanks). Original reverse leather over heavy boards, worn. Thick folio. Jamaica, Queens: 1929 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.