(KETHUBAH)

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1908

Description

Marriage Contract. Printed with manuscript additions in Sephardi cursive (Meshita) script. At center top, seal of the Sephardic Community of Jerusalem, flanked by two lions. Depicted scenes of Jerusalem: Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue, Churvah Synagogue, Tiphereth Israel (Nissan Bak) Synagogue, and the Temple Mount. At bottom, scenes of Jericho and Shechem (Nablus)

references

S. Sabar, Ketubbah (1990), pp. 316-7, no. 203 (incl. facs.)

summary

Ari ben Isaac Samander weds Istam, called “Bechorah,” daughter of Simchah Katzav. The witnesses are Elijah Jacob Leghimi and Saul Kassin. Rabbi Saul Kassin (1864-1915), a native of Aleppo, settled in Jerusalem in 1891. There, he acquired a reputation as one of the outstanding kabbalists of the Holy City. He was the father of R. Jacob Kassin (1900-1994), Chief Rabbi of the Syrian community of Brooklyn. See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), pp. 227-242, nos. 327, 330

Creased. Framed. 17 x 22 inches

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