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Lot #    25433
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 12:37:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kettubah
Title (Hebrew)    כתובה
Author    [Ms.]
City    Bukhara
Publication Date    1897
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 355:222 mm., split and taped on verso, margins frayed, ink on heavy paper, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Marriage contract for the wedding of Jonathan to the divorcee Chigchina on Tuesday 26 Ab 5697 in Bukhara. The Jews of Bukhara are an ethnic and linguistic group, concentrated in Central Asia, particularly in the area of the Uzbek and Tadzhik Republics. The term "Bukharan Jewry" was coined by European travelers who visited Central Asia before the Russian conquest; it derived from the fact that at that time most of the community lived under the Emir of Bukhara. The members of the community call themselves "Isro'il" or "Yahudi." They speak a distinct dialect of the Tajik language, the so-called Judeo-Tajik, defined also as the Judeo-Tajik language. In Uzbekistan the largest concentrations are in Samarkand, the second largest city in the Uzbek Republic, Tashkent (capital of the Republic), Bukhara, Kokand and other cities. In Tadzhikistan they could be found mainly in the capital, Dushanbe. A considerable number of Jews of Bukharan origin can be found in Israel.

It may be assumed that the first Jews arrived in Central Asia following the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus King of Persia (539 B.C.E.): the majority of the Babylonian exiles did not return to the Holy Land (see Ezra 1:4, 2:64) and remained in Babylonia, at that time part of the Persian Empire. It is thus not unlikely that some came to the three Central Asian provinces of the Empire.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Uzbekistan
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Ketubot:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica