Subject: Jewish calendar

A Jewish calendar book covering sixty-four years, detailing the New Moons, Festivals, and Fasts. Published in London by Thompson in 1838. The book is rebound in stiff wrappers and contains two children's pencil drawings in a new back pocket. The back cover includes numerous names and birthdates of a Philadelphia Jewish family from the 1800s, and pencil notes on some pages record family events. The first and last few pages show tears. Condition: Good-. Wrapper. 137 pages including information on Religious and Charitable Institutions of the Jews in London and a chronological table up to and including Jewish activity in the USA.

This is a Jewish perpetual calendar, covering the years 1826-2240. It provides the dates of New Moons, Sabbaths, Festivals, and Scriptural Portions, corresponding to the common era. The calendar is compiled from ancient rabbinical astronomical works and includes English and Yiddish annotations. The book contains approximately 59 pages in English and 113 pages in Hebrew/Yiddish.

This manuscript almanac, created by Avraham son of Eliezer Katz (Cohen), covers the Jewish year 5539 (1778-1779). Written in Hebrew, it details daily readings, holidays, and significant dates. The almanac was begun in Philadelphia and completed in Lancaster following the British occupation of Philadelphia. The manuscript's author demonstrates a high level of knowledge of Jewish calendrical calculations, while also showing some interesting minor errors and spellings, indicating personal creation rather than transcription from another source. Internal evidence and scholarly analysis strongly suggest the author was a learned and observant individual, possibly a teacher or shamash (synagogue caretaker).

This book is a Hebrew calendar covering fifty years, from A.M. 5614 (1854) to A.M. 5664, with tables extending to A.M. 5776 (1916). It includes an introductory essay on the Jewish calendar system and tables of the Parashiot and Haphtarot as read by both Portuguese and German Israelites. Authored by Jacques Judah Lyons and Abraham de Sola, it was published in Montreal by J. Lovell in 1854.

This is the second edition of Miller's Planters' and Merchants' Almanac, published in Charleston, South Carolina in 1828 for use in 1829. Calculated by Joshua Sharp, it provides a calendar, including a section dedicated to Jewish holidays for the year 5589. The almanac also contains various information relevant to planters and merchants in South Carolina and Georgia, such as details on government officials, the South Carolina College, banks, insurance companies, the post office, the South Carolina Railroad, foreign coin values, fire companies, a gardener's calendar, steamboat rates, roads, and an advertisement for Clements Ferry. It also includes agricultural information, pilot details for Charleston harbor, and pilotage rates.

This 40-page leather-bound book, titled "Pacific Coast Diary," offers a glimpse into daily life in San Francisco during 1885. It includes a Jewish calendar, stagecoach fares, information on the best travel routes within the city, and details about San Francisco's tides. The diary combines practical travel information with cultural details, providing a unique record of the city at the time.

This 57-page almanac, published by George W. Childs' Public Ledger in Philadelphia in 1880, includes a Hebrew calendar noting strictly observed Jewish holidays on page 8. The almanac provides a range of information typical for such publications of the time, including astronomical data, weather predictions, and other practical information.

This 1861 edition of Richardson's Almanac includes a full-page feature dedicated to the Jewish calendar and the two Richmond synagogues. It provides times for commencing the Sabbath. The synagogues' founding dates, 1791 and 1841, are also noted.

This is an 1852 edition of Richardson's Almanac. The almanac features a full-page spread dedicated to the two Richmond, Virginia synagogues, including their founding dates (1791 and 1841) and times for commencing the Sabbath. The almanac also includes a Jewish calendar. Published in Richmond, Virginia.

This is an 1853 edition of Richardson's Almanac. The almanac features a full page dedicated to the Jewish calendar and information on the two Richmond synagogues. Specifically, it provides the times for commencing the Sabbath and notes that the synagogues were founded in 1791 and 1841, respectively. The almanac is part of the Cotton Edition.

Richardson's Almanac, 1857 Cotton Edition. This almanac features a full-page depiction of the two Richmond synagogues, founded in 1791 and 1841 respectively. It also includes times for commencing the Sabbath and a Jewish calendar. Published in 1857.

This is the 1865 edition of Robert B. Thomas's Old Farmer's Almanac, published by Swan, Brewer & Tileston in Boston. This 48-page almanac includes weather forecasts, astronomical data (eclipses, planetary positions), a Jewish calendar for 1864-1865, lists of American Presidents and Supreme Court justices, information on agriculture (farming in New England, raising livestock, cranberries), stamp duties, tide tables, and a mileage chart of major U.S. cities.

Book published in 1843 by David H. Williams in Boston. This 342-page almanac contains a variety of information including celestial phenomena, chronological cycles, the Jewish calendar, Mahometan calendar, tides, eclipses, meteorological information, government officials, military lists, post office establishment, and more. It features an early American printing of the Jewish calendar.

This 200-page hardbound book, published in New York City in 1890, is a Jewish calendar covering a 100-year period. It contains numerous advertisements, some in English and Yiddish. A copy is signed by M.I. Levy with the inscription "With My Compliments."