Tafsir Ruth [Biblical Book of Ruth as read on the Festival of Shavuoth].

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

(UZBEKISTAN).

printer

Rahamim David Bajouf

Place

Kokand

Publication

1915

Description

Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Tajik. Prepared by Rahamim David Bajouf and Azaria Yosofouf.

references

Bibliographically unlisted.

summary

Issued for the Bukharian Community. Possibly the first Hebrew publication in Kokand, a town in Eastern Uzbekistan some 200 miles south of the capital city of Tashkent. Rosenfeld’s Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing only lists a later (1916) publication.

pp. 18. Some staining, closely shaved affecting few letters. Contemporary colored wrappers. 12mo.

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