Auction 4 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Apr 22, 2009 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 33:

Kushta Ashkenazi Ketubah and Shtar Tna'im

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1. Ketubah, printed by "The Ashkenazi Congregation in Kushta". Imp. L. Printing.
Fine Ketubah with ornamented frame and illustration of The Stone Tablets and a Magen David.
Filled in handwriting in 1934. Groom is David Goldstein and Bride is Siniori Bat Siman Tov Ashkenazi. Signatures of groom, witnesses and rabbi (David Shraga Ben Rabbi Yosef known as Dr. Marcus), ink stamp of the Ashkenzi Congregation in Kushta and government label.
37x49 cm. Good condition. Minor foxing. Wear and tear to folding lines. Adhesive tape to verso.
2. Blank printed Shtar Tna'im. Nicely ornamented. Khatyn. No year. Published by Rabbi Moshe Felman's bookshop in Khatyn. Printer's name in Cyrillic letters only.
This is the only printed item known from Khatyn. Famous Rabbis in Khatyn include Rabbi Yesha'ayah Shor, in law of the Mahartza of Zidichov, Rabbi Yitzhak Leibush Toyb of Kalib, Rabbi Chaim Roizman, Ba'al "Ohel Moshe" and Torat Hayim".
In the Rhuzin Hassidut there's the famous "Great Marriage" in Khatyn, in which Rabbi Yitzhak of Boyan married the daughter of Rabbi Yohanan of Rachmestrivka, a wedding which sixty thousand guests attended. [See enclosed materials].
22x35 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and creases and minor tears to folding lines.

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