Roshanahi - Bukharian Jewish Journal. Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1926. Extraordinarily Rare

Roshanahi - Bukharian Jewish Journal. Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1926. Extraordinarily Rare
Issue number 31 of the rare journalֲ Roshanahi - Bukharian-Nationalist-Jewish journal. Printed by lithograph on a large sheet. Bukharian in Hebrew letters. This issue also includes news from Teheran, London and Moscow.
Towards the end of 1925, a Judeo-Bukharian newspaper called Roshanahi ["My Light"] began to appear. It published the literary works of the first Bukharian creators of the Soviet era, including M. Ch. Bachiev [Mochiv], Gabriel Samandrov, Yehonatan Khurayev, Ya'akov Chaimov and others. Roshanahi served as the official bulletin of the Central Bureau of Bukharian Jews, to the side of the propaganda wing of the Cheka (the secret political police of the Communist regime after the revolution).
Before us is an extraordinarily rare journal. The National Library collection contains only some of the published issues, and of the issues published in 1926, they only have photocopies. According to some historians, the issues of this journal published that year were printed in only 200 copies. (Regarding this journal, see more in Handbook of Jewish Languages Boston-Leiden, 2016, pp. 263-264; and Pa'amim, a multidisciplinary quarterly on research of Jewish communities in the East, published by Machon Ben-Tzvi, issue 136.)
4 pages, 45x35 cm. Moderate-fine condition. Fold marks. Tears without lack, mainly in the folds.