Pinchas Kabuli was born 1826 in Mashhad, Iran. From there he moved to Kabul, which he left in 1850 for Bukhara. According to a memoir, the family did not like the climate there (as well as some other things) and therefore moved to Samarkand. Before they reached Samarkand, the travellers were raided in a town called Karmina, where Pinchas Kabuli was killed on August 14, 1861.

One of Pinchas’ sons, Shlomo Bobojon Pinchasov, published several books in Jerusalem. Besides interpretations of the Torah and piyyutim, he also published a Hebrew dictionary, in which he translated Hebrew (Lishon HaKodesh, the holy language) to Persian, Russian, Aramaic, Spanish, Arabic and Turkish in the book titled “Six Languages”.

Source: National Library of Israel.

Document from the National Archive of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, about the Zaurov family, related to the Pinchasovs through marriage. The document is one of many attesting to the endeavors of Jewish families to prove that they were native (tuzemnje) to the land, recently conquered by the Tsarist army. This would allow them privileges related to trade and ownership of land. Courtesy of Ruben Pinchasov.

The PJRA contains digital copies of several religious books part of the family used, of publications by Babajan Pinchasov, interviews with family members, and a bilingual Persian and Hebrew Haggadah, printed in Tehran in the 1960s.