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Rhodes Ketubah
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This ketubah (ritual marriage contract) from Rhodes formalizes the marriage of Avraham, son of Yehudah Galante, and Joya, daughter of Shlomo d’Boton. The groom may have been the prominent educator…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Ketubot, Marriage, Jewish identity, Family, Aesthetics

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Legal Documents
Paper with Aramaic text surrounded by colonnades and elaborate, interlaced pattern around perimeter.
Ketubah with a Depiction of Jerusalem
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Padua, Italy, marks the marriage of Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen me-ha-ḥazanim (“of the cantors,” or Cantarini) and Colomba bat David Aziz. The groom was a…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1732

Subjects:

Ketubot, Illuminated manuscripts, Marriage, Family, Profession

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Page of Aramaic text surrounded by many images and decorations, including zodiac symbols, scenes of figures and animals, cherubs, Hebrew words around margins, and vines and flowers.
Ketubbah
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from London was written for the marriage of Isaac di Matos-Lopes and Sarah di Matos-Lopes. It also has, as one of its signatories, prominent scholar David Nieto, first…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Ketubot, Marriage, Illuminated manuscripts, Women, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Legal Documents, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Aramaic text surrounded by border of flowers, vines, and animals, and illustrations of couple on top right corner and of figure with two children on top left corner.