Tephilah Beth Almin [burial and funeral prayers]

(PERSIA).

Ezekiel Shem-tob Dawid

Bombay

1888

FIRST EDITION . According to the custom of the Jews of Bushehr.

A. Yaari, Bombay Supplement in: Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXIV, p. 70 no. 41.

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.