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The groom Barukh and the bride Khanna, two separate portraits joined (c 1870) |
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The wedding of Barukh and Khanna, circa 1870. The bride and groom are beneath a tallit serving as the chuppa (canopy). Channa is the tiny figure under a "burqua," according to the original caption. The man in the center is extending a cup of wine as part of the ceremony -- sheva brachot, according to the caption. The two mothers, wearing turbans, are on the sides of the bride and groom. |
To commemorate Tu B'Av on July 22 ...
Last year we uncovered pictures in the Library of Congress files showing Bukhari Jewish life in Samarkand some 140 years ago. We posted pictures showing Jewish children in school, family life, a sukka, and more.
Today, we re-post photos from another group of pictures, the wedding of Barukh and Khanna around 1870.
Later this week we will present a gallery of young women in the community, and provide the background of the political changes that resulted in this pictures being taken.
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Signing the ketuba, the marriage contract. The bride (peaking out from under her burqua) and the groom are already under the tallit, with their mothers on either side |
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A party for the women and girls on the eve of the wedding. Click here to see Barukh sitting with the men |
Bukhari Jews, from what is today the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, may be one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. According to some researchers, the community may date back to the days of the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile. Over the centuries, the community suffered from forced conversion to Islam and from Genghis Khan's pillage and destruction of the region.
Around the time these pictures were taken the Bukhari Jews began to move to Israel. They established an early settlement in the Bukharan quarter of Jerusalem.
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The Bukhari Jewish families discuss the dowry prior to a wedding (circa 1870). The caption identifies the two bundles behind them as the dowry |
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Original caption: "A group of people escorting the bride and groom (the couple on the far left) to a house" |
Dedicated to M & S on the birth of their son, Ro'i Naveh
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