Sephardic Ketubot from Turkey
84 RecordsMarriage · Vital Records · Turkey · Sephardic · Jeff Malka Collection
Background
The National Library of Israel located in Jerusalem has an online Database dedicated to ketubot (marriage contracts) from all over the world at web.nli.org.il. This database includes the marriage contracts from its own collection but also from various Israeli institutions such as the Ben Zvi Institute, Museum of Israel, etc as well as from large collections from outside the country such as the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), the Dahan Collection (Brussels) etc.
The Database
The present index includes 84 ketubot mostly from Istanbul (24) and Izmir (45) but also from small communities, covering the period 1600-1955. Some 340 persons are indexed.
The surnames are here spelled according to their usual forms as they were written in French. The given names are spelled according to transliteration rules.
Fields Recorded
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z”l who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential.
In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.
Searching This Database
This collection can be searched via the JewishGen Turkey Database, the JewishGen Jeff Malka Collection or the JewishGen Sephardic Collection.
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