Sephardic Ketubot from Eretz Israel


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Sephardic Ketubot from Eretz Israel

The National Library of Israel located in Jerusalem has an online Database dedicated to ketubot (marriage contracts) from all over the world at: https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/jewish-collection/ketubbot/Pages/default.aspx. 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 present index includes 138 ketubot from Acre, Beit Shean, Haifa, Hebron, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Pekiin, Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Safed, Tel Aviv and Tiberias The period covered by these ketubot begins in 1816 and ends in 1946 and includes 550 persons.

For each ketuba, the researcher will find its url in order to be able to immediately view it as well as the surnames of the groom and bride, their given names and their fathers' names.

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.

The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection