JEWISH MARRIAGE CONTRACTS

Bombay, India, 1911

‘The ketubah is the contract that Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day. Different Jewish communities adopted styles and even shapes for their ketubot that were characteristic of their localities’

- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Ferrara, Italy, 1736

Kutaisi, Georgia, 1951

Jerusalem, 1888

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