Kethubah [Marriage Contract] of Morris Meyer to Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 227

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Kethubah [Marriage Contract] of Morris Meyer to Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim

Hebrew, English and German. Hebrew scribal lettering pp. (2) + 2 integral blanks. Slight tears. Good condition. Black ink on ruled paper. Folio

Charleston, South Carolina: 28th Cheshvan, 1857

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

The Kethubah states that the ceremony took place “in the eighty-first year of American Independence.”The officiating rabbi was Dr. Maurice Mayer who served as minister of Beth Elohim, Charleston’s historic synagogue, from 1852 to 1857. See Reznikoff and Engelman, The Jews of Charleston (1950) pp. 90, 148. For some unknown reason, the Kethubah required validation by the Landrabbiner of Hannover, Germany in 1889. The German-language validation appears as a codicil to the Kethubah