Collection of c. 27 manuscripts, documents, letters and printed broadsides relating to the Jews of India, especially Cochin and Bombay. In various languages

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From the Collection of the Late Professor Walter J. Fischel

Including: 1. A manuscript copy of Geschiedkundige…Blanke an Swarte Jooden…Cochin (I) of de Kust van Malabar… By Adriaan Moens, 1781 (?). 2. Asher Abraham HaLevi. Davar Beito [halachic discourse concerning the status of slaves that are freed and whether their halachic status is the same as converts]. pp.4. [Yaari, Bombay no. 33 erroneously noting ff.4]. Bombay, 1843. The author determined that freed slaves who immersed themselves in a ritual bath (mikveh), are considered converts. (cf. Yaari, Bombay nos. 30-33). This work contains a response by R. Abdullah Somech of Baghdad, supporting the author against his opponents. 3. (Broadside). Prayer for the Maharaja of Cochin. In English. 4. Poems, liturgies and nursery rhymes in Hebrew, Marathi and English. Signed by Isaac Elias Hallegua. 5. Documents in Hebrew concerning the sale of a house. Cochin, 1817 and 1873. 6. A “Shadar” document, dated 1898 concerning the emissary R. Chaim Edrei. Signed by the Rabbis of Safed. 7. Three documents in Marathi and two in Hebrew concerning the Rachabi family. (c. 1826). 8. A printed amulet to ward off the evil eye.