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Title

Ketubah book :

Authors

• Congregation Beth El Emeth (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Jacobs, George, 1834-1884, scribe
• Rosenbach, Morris, witness
• Kaplan, Arnold, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 003.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963207603503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229052

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Aramaic and Hebrew, with names, wedding dates, and some wedding locations in English

Summary

Bound compilation of manuscript marriage contracts for 62 couples married by George Jacobs between November 5, 1873, and November 13, 1881. Jacobs served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth El Emeth from 1869 to his death in 1884. His term followed that of Isaac Leeser, who founded the synagoge in 1857 and served as its rabbi until his death in 1868. Most weddings took place in Philadelphia, with two each in Doylestown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania; one each in Harrisburg, Manayunk, Abingdon, and Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; and one each in Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia. Every ketubah is written in the hand of Jacobs, with the abridged ketubah text in a single block paragraph, justified by stretching characters, and his Hebrew name Gershon bar Mosheh Śimḥah inscribed at the foot of each leaf. Ketubahs are signed by the groom and 2 witnesses. Congregational president Morris Rosenbach signed as witness on several occasions. Couples' English names, wedding date, and wedding location when not in Philadelphia recorded in English at the head of each leaf. The contracts were entered into the volume from left to right on the rectos, with versos left blank. Volume bound in blind-stamped leather, with gilt title on left cover; covers detached and spine damaged.

Extent

1 volume (62 leaves) : 32 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Purchased by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan with the Penn Libraries for the Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (sold by Michael Kaufman, 2014).
   

Subjects topical

• Ketubah--19th century--Specimens
• Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)--Specimens
• Jews--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century--Sources

Genres

• Ketubahs
• Marriage certificates
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Samuel Woolner & Gussie Bennett née Fridenburg, November 5, 1873
• fol. 2r — Joseph A. Levi & Josephine Mayer, November 12, 1873
• fol. 3r — Aaron Katz & Marie Lewisson, December 17, 1873
• fol. 4r — Leon Gans & Theresa Hamburger, January 28, 1874
• fol. 5r — Morris Kohn & Florence Bloomingdale, February 26, 1874
• fol. 6r — Emanuel R. Pereira & Lina Wiesenfeld, March 1, 1874
• fol. 7r — William March & Addie Davis, April 16, 1874
• fol. 8r — Albert E. Wolf & Rosamond Wimpfheimer, September 6, 1874
• fol. 9r — Sigmund Roggenburger & Josephine Furst, October 11, 1874
• fol. 10r — Isaac G. Wile & Theresa I. Hamburger, October 21, 1874
• fol. 11r — Moses Hecht & Hannah Lemburger, November 22, 1874
• fol. 12r — Mark Elkin & Augusta Mendelsohn, January 10, 1875
• fol. 13r — Hart E. Berg & Rega DeLissa, January 13, 1875
• fol. 14r — Levi Sternberg & Mary Weyl, February 9, 1875
• fol. 15r — Dr. Jacob Solis Cohen & Miriam Binswanger, February 10, 1875
• fol. 16r — Isaac Hamburg & Carrie Sturm, April 14, 1875
• fol. 17r — Oscar Birnbaum & Mary Strouse, August 4, 1875
• fol. 18r — Henry Samenfield & Charlotta Hecht, August 15, 1875
• fol. 19r — Geo. Washington Cohen DeLeon & Jennie Bromstine, August 25, 1875
• fol. 20r — Joseph Anathan & Annie Fridenburg, September 15, 1875
• fol. 21r — Solomon Fernberger & Bertha Eisner, October 12, 1875
• fol. 22r — Bernhard Kohn & Esther Bloomingdale, February 23, 1876
• fol. 23r — Alan Wiener & Gertrude Spatz, March 29, 1876
• fol. 24r — Alfred Aarons & Barbara Hoffman, May 21, 1876
• fol. 25r — Joel Isaacs & Amelia Marquis, May 21, 1876
• fol. 26r — David Rosenbaum & Ida Wolf, August 6, 1876
• fol. 27r — Abraham E. Cohen & Clara Arnold, October 18, 1876
• fol. 28r — Edward D. Kohn & Mollie (Miriam) Levi, October 25, 1876
• fol. 29r — Moses Pels & Helen Rosenbaum, November 22, 1876
• fol. 30r — Simon Liveright & Florence Kahn, November 29, 1876
• fol. 31r — Louis B. Weil & Matilda Lewisson, March 11, 1877
• fol. 32r — Reakah Newhouse & Isaac Katz, April 11, 1877
• fol. 33r — Leon Folz & Alice Rhine, November 28, 1877
• fol. 34r — Lina Zellner & GraceA. Mailert, December 13, 1877
• fol. 35r — Ezra W. Arnold & Miss Minnie Kahn, December 26, 1877
• fol. 36r — Moses Nathan & Caroline Rosenthal, January 6, 1878
• fol. 37r — Harry I. Nathans & Mariam Louisa Kartsher, January 14, 1878
• fol. 38r — Morris Reager & Clara Marquis, January 27, 1878
• fol. 39r — Morris Levy & Carrie Hoffman at Lancaster, Pa., June 12, 1878
• fol. 40r — Charles I. Phillips & Rebecca Jones, July 3, 1878
• fol. 41r — Edwin H. Springer & Ida Jones, July 17, 1878
• fol. 42r — Philip I. Cohen & Harriet Lieber, September 25, 1878, Abington, Pa.
• fol. 43r — Martin Haas & Mary Sulzbach, January 12, 1879
• fol. 44r — D.F. Hirsh & Lena Loeb, Lancaster, Pa, March 26, 1879
• fol. 45r — Reuben Lindheim & Hortense C. Guggenheimer, Lynchburg, Va, April 30, 1879
• fol. 46r — Simon David & Fanny Schöen, December 7, 1879
• fol. 47r — Moses Schriver & Rachel Elias Sampom, January 1, 1880
• fol. 48r — Nathan Rosenfelt & Lena Duckes, March 10, 1880
• fol. 49r — Solomon H. Jaffa & Leonore Goldsmith, March 24, 1880
• fol. 50r — Sigmund Loeb & Flora Loeb, Doylestown, Pa, April 15, 1880
• fol. 51r — Elias P. Levy & Mrs. Carrie Negbaccer, Manayunk, April 25, 1880
• fol. 52r — Herbert Moses Athias Silver & Flora Isabel Elise DeLeon, May 19, 1880
• fol. 53r — Edwin A. Ezekiel & Martha Levy, Richmond, Va, October 6, 1880
• fol. 54r — Dr. Lee Lowengrund & Helen F. Vendig, December 8, 1880
• fol. 55r — Isaac Zellner & Anna D. Mailert, December 16, 1880
• fol. 56r — Benjamin Vogel & Richa Moyer, January 16, 1881
• fol. 57r — Sigmund Meyers & Rebecca Karston, January 19, 1881
• fol. 58r — Thomas Jefferson Sheftall & Irene Ella Nathans, February 13, 1881
• fol. 59r — Leon Dettelbach & Julia Kahnweiler, Harrisburg, Pa, March 2, 1881
• fol. 60r — Elias Wolf & Emma Tuck, May 1, 1881
• fol. 61r — Moses D. Ancker & Carrie Loeb, Doylestown, Pa, June 15, 1881
• fol. 62r — Samuel Goldman & Rosa Reinheimer, November 13, 1881