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Submitted by Gal Malul

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Category: Translation - Hebrew Approval Date: 8/30/2026 8:13 PM Family Surname: Country: Israel Town: Safed Date of Image: 1882	Click the picture to enlarge	Two witness signatures from two ketubot written in Safed 26 days apart, both in the Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. A (upper): 13 Adar 5642 = 1882, ketubah KET Z38, the right-hand of two witnesses. This is the same crop I posted separately as ViewMate 115222. B (lower): 10 Nisan 5642 = 1882, ketubah KET Z39, the only witness signature on that document. Written 26 days later, in the same town, but by a different scribe and in a different format. Both are dense Sephardi monogram flourishes drawn inside a frame, and I cannot read either one. Two questions: 1. Is this one and the same signer, or two different men? 2. What do the signatures say? A letter by letter reading, as far as it can be pushed, would be ideal. I would rather not say what I am hoping to find, so that any reading stays independent. Both images are at the highest resolution the originals allow. Thank you very much.

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