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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the…
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17th–18th Century
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This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a…
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Jan Luyken
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683
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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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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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Artist Unknown
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire (Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
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1719
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Emanuel Colli by the University of Padua, Italy. Designed as a small, illuminated book, its four leaves are decorated with floral borders, and include…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1692
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This ketubah was written for the wedding of Isaac Senior Teixeira (1631–1705) and Rachel Senior de Mattos. The wealthy Teixeira family (also known as Teixeira de Mattos or Teixeira de Sampayo), was…
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1648
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We, Leopold, elected Roman Emperor by the grace of God, in the name [of the House of Hapsburg], the name of our heirs and our descendants, with this letter proclaim publicly that we have graciously…
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Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1703
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I admit my guilt in that Christmas past, my said husband Juan Estevan told me how his daughter Inés had ascended to the sky and saw there the deceased and the living; and how the conversos were very…
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Beatriz Ramírez of Alcázar
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Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire (Herrera del Duque, Spain)
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1500/1501
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Copy of the authorization of the honored Officials sent from the holy city.
We, the undersigned, the sages and elders and patrons and officials and leaders of the holy city of Jerusalem, attest a…
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Constantinople Officials
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1746
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Eliah Forli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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1614, 1623