Auction 33 Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical
Aug 28, 2013 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 26:

Jerusalem Ketubah – 1926

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Ketuba printed with gilded ink, adornments and pictures of the Holy Sites, Rothstein printing press. Jerusalem.
Completed by hand, recording the marriage of the groom Rabbi Mordechai Ya'ir ben R' Chaim David with the bride Esther Raizel bat Rabbi Ya'akov Asher HaLevi. Witnesses' signatures: Rabbi "Michel Avraham Harrison" [Rabbi Michel Menker] and Rabbi "Fishel Kaplan" [Rabbi Fishel Melamed] and stamps of the Badatz. Jerusalem, Sivan 1926.
The groom, Rabbi Mordechai Ya'ir Houseman (1902-1984), son-in-law of the famous Jerusalem Torah genius Rabbi Ya'akov Asher HaLevi Grayevsky, (1866-1946), author of Brit HaLevi and Shevet HaLevi.
41 cm. Fair condition, stains, wear damage to paper fold.
The Bibliography Institute CD does not have any titles of the Rothstein printing press in Jerusalem. This press in mentioned in the book B'She'arayich Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1949).

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