Ketubah (New York)

Zemah Davidsohn

1863

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Page of Aramaic text featuring two pillars decorated with plant foliage and topped with clocks. Center depicts a crown at the bottom, Hebrew text, and hands clasped at the top.

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Zemah Davidsohn

Ritual slaughterer, cantor, and scribe Zemach Davidsohn was born in Eastern Europe and emigrated to the United States as a teenager, shortly after his marriage at the age of fifteen. He lived in New York and Pennsylvania before eventually settling in Chicago.

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Hebrew

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New York City, United States of America

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Paper Cut—Brit Milah

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Silver plate featuring a boat in the center.

Alms Plate

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Wood-carving of a man in skullcap examining an object in his hands.

A Jewish Tailor

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Medal with the Image of Judith and Moses Montefiore

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Book page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border and animal on top.

Minute Book of Psalms Society Serving in the Russian Army

In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…

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Medal Commemorating the Opening of the Dutch Jewish Orphanage in Amsterdam

This bronze medal by Jacques Elion commemorates the opening of a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Orphanage.” It was customary for Jewish communities to issue medals to…

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Ketubah (New York)

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Zemah Davidsohn

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