Subject: Fasting

Issue of Niles' Weekly Register, a newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 13, 1813. This issue includes an announcement of a day of fasting by the Charleston Hebrew Synagogue on November 30, 1813, to pray for success in the war.

This 33-page book contains the liturgy and customs for a special annual fast day observed by New York's Gemilath Chassadim Shel Emeth Burial Society in 1886. Published by the Jewish Gazette, the book features Hebrew text and details the society's unique liturgical practices for this day. The book shows some staining and is bound in contemporary marbled boards with original printed pink wrappers, though the gutter is split.