[Sefer ha-Ḥayim] = The book of life : a complete formula of the service and ceremonies observed at the death-bed, house of mourning and cemetery : together with prayers on visiting the graves / elaborated and revised by Rev. Dr. H. Vidaver.
ספר החיים = The book of life : a complete formula of the service and ceremonies observed at the death-bed, house of mourning and cemetery; together with prayers on visiting the graves elaborated and revised by Rev. Dr. H. Vidaver.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Vidaver, H., 1833-1882, editor.
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• Hebrew

Subjects (All):

• Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies.
• Jewish mourning customs.
• Jewish mourning customs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.
• Judaism--Liturgy.

Genre:

• Handbooks and manuals.
• Texts.

Penn Provenance:

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
• Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

194 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Book of life

Place of Publication:

New York : H. Sakolski, 1882.

Language Note:

Text in English. Prayers in vocalized Hebrew and English on facing pages.

Notes:

Two leaves follow p. 194: "Death record".

Local Notes:

• Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
• Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01161

Other Format:

Online version: Jews. Mourners' prayers. Book of life.

OCLC:

12565196