Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch].
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 134
(KARAITICA).
Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch].
Orta-Koi (near Constantinople): Arub Oglu Bogus 1832-35
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
<<The first Pentateuch produced for the Karaite community.
>> “In Czarist Russia during the nineteenth century, the Karaites sought to emphasize their differences with the followers of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, in order to avoid being victim to anti-Jewish laws and so improve their socio-economic status. Clearly aimed at the Karaite community, this Bible, with translation into Judeo-Tartar (the local Karaite Crimean dialect), was thus a cultural statement as well as a political tool for achieving a separate - but more than equal - status under imperial Russian law” (Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012).