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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…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Damascus, Ottoman Empire
(Damascus, Syria)
Date:
1706
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In the year 303 [1543], Joseph Catalan claimed that he had married his betrothed Regina, daughter of Moses Ḥayim, on Yom Kippur in front of the gate of her father’s courtyard, by giving her a shawl…
Contributor:
Joseph Ibn Lev
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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A poem that I, Sa‘adia Longo, wrote to an important and wealthy man from Nicopolis, who came here to Salonika to marry a woman. I was not able to participate in his celebration because I was…
Contributor:
Sa‘adia Longo
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
Contributor:
Caspar Birckenholtz, Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century