Perach - The Jewish Gazette.

Estimate: $7,000–$9,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(INDIA).

Place

Calcutta

Publication

1878-89

Description

Text in Judeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Bound here into eleven volumes, containing: Vols. I - XI. Each volume contains 50 consecutive issues.

summary

Newspaper of the Jewish Baghdadi community of India. A complete run. The Perach newspaper was published from summer of 1878 through winter of 1889. The original editors were Moshe ben Mordehai Meyuhad and Elya Ch. Siliman, and later, Eliyahu Moshe Dwich HaCohen. Published every Friday, it featured news from across the world, nonetheless its main purpose was to serve the local Indian community with social and religious communal news.

Complete but for: Vol I no. 1 in xerox, vol. III lacks no. 12, vol. XI nos. 16 and 19 lacking. Variously worn or torn, expert repairs. Later boards (two styles). Folio. Sold not subject to return.

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