(BUKHARIA).

AUCTION 48 |
Thursday, May 27th,
2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Featuring an Exceptional Collection of American Judaica
Lot 300
(BUKHARIA).
Bukhara: 19th-century
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Bukharian poet Yusuf Yahudi (1688-1755) wrote a Judeo-Persian version of the Midrashic account of the martyrdom of Hannah and her seven sons, as well as an adaptation of Megillath Antiochus, which narrates the events leading up to the Hasmonean revolt and the story of Chanukah. Yahudi founded a native school of Bukharian Jewish poets who created literature in their dialect of Judeo-Persian. See EJ, Vol. XVI, col. 704