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Bidding Information
Lot #    23488
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 10:07:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kettubah
Title (Hebrew)    כתובה
Author    [Ms. - Women]
City    Brooklyn, N.Y.
Publication Date    1908
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 350:210 mm., ink on printed form, creased on folds, usual age staining, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    A preprinted kettubah form completed by hand with the date of 22nd day of Elul 5669 for the groom Baruch son of Zevi and the bride Hannah Feiga daughter of Jacob Shraga. The kettubah is signed by three (!) witnesses using their Jargon (American Yiddish) spellings: Max Doroshein spelled מאקש and omitting his father's name; Mendel ben Yitzhok spelled יוצחק; Joseph ben Anschel spelled יאסעף בן אנטשעל.

This is an early Brooklyn kettubah where Hebrew printing is first reported in the late 1890's by the Hebrew Publishing Co. which moved to Manhattan in the 1900's. An 1893 Brownsville (Brooklyn) imprint, anti-Deinard polemic by Libowitz may have been printed elsewhere as many of his bibliography facts were often distorted to meet his needs. The pointed block letters on this kettubah are representative of this firm's production and may be one of their early imprints. The first congregation in Brooklyn was organized in 1854 with 15 members and in 1876 built the first synagogue.

          
Reference
Description		    The Hebrews in America p. 335
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Ketubot:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica