Nathan Amram. Ilui Neshamoth [commentary to Psalms, with excerpts of Zohar, Mishnah and other works to recite and study on a Yahrzeit to “heal the soul”]. With: Kuntrass Acharon [prayers to be recited at a cemetery] and Idra Raba Ve’Idra Zuta.

(AFGHANISTAN).

S. Belforte

Livorno

1868

Three titles. With signature on title and first leaf of previous owner: Yeudah b. Shlomo Babadan Pinchasof, Kabul 1906. Further inscriptions record the death of his parents buried in Samarkand and in Jerusalem.

Capital of Afghanistan, Kabul was the home of a large Sephardic and Bukharian-Jewish community and the source of unique rite and custom. Jews are said to have resided in Afghanistan for nearly 1,500 years, however following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the community rapidly dwindled. By the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979, aside in Afghanistan can be said to be quite finished.