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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Damascus, signed on the 21st of Shevat 5466, or February 5, 1706, features a text set within an arch, and flanked on both sides and above with green and orange…
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Artist Unknown
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Damascus, Ottoman Empire
(Damascus, Syria)
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1706
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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire
(Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
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1719
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17th–18th Century
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Anonymous
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1648
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wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1680/1
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This rare example of a Roman ketubah (marriage contract) from the seventeenth century was written on the occasion of the marriage of Menahem ben Samuel Zadik to Zevia, daughter of the prominent banker…
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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1627
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This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France
(Bayonne, France)
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1705
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This intricately decorated ketubah (marriage contract) marks the marriage of Gabriel ben Hezekiah Amron to Simḥa bat Shabbetai mi-Segni. It is richly decorated with biblical miniatures, including one…
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1734
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France
(Bordeaux, France)
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1747
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1654