Ketubah

Zemah Davidsohn

1863

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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