Tephilah Beth Almin [burial and funeral prayers]

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 236

(PERSIA).

Tephilah Beth Almin [burial and funeral prayers]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . According to the custom of the Jews of Bushehr. pp. (2), 21. Browned, lower quarter of outer margins farayed without affecting text. Modern boards. 8vo. A. Yaari, Bombay Supplement in: Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXIV, p. 70 no. 41.

Bombay: Ezekiel Shem-tob Dawid 1888

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $900

The only work published according to the custom of the small Persian community of Bushehr. Bushehr, or Abu Shehr, is an Iranian port on the Persian Gulf. It was here, in 1828, that Sheik Sassoon ibn Salih, patriarch of the celebrated Sassoon Family found refuge when forced to flee the tyranny of Pasha Daud in Baghdad. In 1832, his son, David Sassoon, embarked from Bushire to establish, what was to become, the glorious Sassoon presence in India. See EJ, IV col. 1535; D.S. Sassoon, History of the Jews in Bagdad (1949) p.125. Presently, Bushehr is the site of a nuclear power plant that Iran has developed in cooperation with Russia.