Ketubah : Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1766, February 13 - from our story 'Ketubah Art: Jewish Marriage Contracts From The 17th and 18th Centuries'

Ketubah : Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1766, February 13

Ketubah : Dordrecht, Netherlands, 1766, February 13. Bridegroom: Binyamin bar Yitshak. Bride: Ester bat Tsevi ha-mekhuneh Hirsh. Witnesses: Yosef ben Zalmon Segal, and one other. Abstract: Marriage contract, manuscript, ink on vellum, dated 4th of Adar 5526 at Dargiya (1766). The bride is referred to as a halitstah, i.e. released from a levirite marriage.

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