Lot 334
Archive of Chubara Family – Yemenite Immigrants to Jerusalem
Archive of manuscripts, photographs and printed matter, letters and documents, from the archive of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Chubara, a Yemenite immigrant to Jerusalem.
* Manuscript of hundreds of leaves, of memoirs of Yemen and the immigration to Jerusalem. This manuscript was printed with many differences in his book "B'Tla'ot Teiman V'Yerushalayim" (Jerusalem, 1970). *the book "B'Tla'ot Teiman V'Yerushalayim" is attached. * Letters, documents and other papers from the Chubara family in Jerusalem. (Letters signed by Rabbi Yosef Kapach and Yosef Chubara). * Various photographs, including several professional photographs of Yemenite women in festive attire (20X17 cm). Family photographs and other photographs (most of the photographs do not appear in the book "B'Tla'ot Teiman V'Yerushalayim"). Portrait, drawing of a family member (signed by the artist Karloszon). * Illustrated and colored printing of title pages of prayer books, printed by the Yemenite community in Jerusalem.
Yosef ben Shalom Chubara (1892-1975), born in Yemen and ascended to Jerusalem in 1924, and was very active in the establishment and upholding of a Yemenite synagogue and community. Published the siddur Tiklal Kadmonim with the ancient Yemenite prayer version (without additions according to kabbalah and the Arizal). His book "B'Tla'ot Teiman V'Yerushalayim" is the source for information about the lives of Sena and Yemenite Jews with many documents in reference to the history of the polemic between the kabalistic scholars in Yemen and those who opposed them.
Approximately 100 items, varied size and condition. Mostly in good condition.
