[MANUSCRIT - KETOUBAH] - Lot 131

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[MANUSCRIT - KETOUBAH] - Lot 131
[MANUSCRIT - KETOUBAH] Handwritten marriage contract on parchment, pen, ink and watercolor. Blessings in gilt ink decorate the border of the ketubah and are framed by gilt fillets. Signed by the scribe and illuminator David Elkaim. Marriage contract between (?) and Sultana Cohen. Safi, Circa 1917. 64 x 43.5 cmRabbi David Elkaim (1851-1941): Jewish poet, sculptor, artist, journalist and scholar, he was one of the three authors of the anthology Shir Yedidut, which forms the basis of the bakashot sung by Moroccan Jews [for more information, see: Yosef Shitrit, "R' David Elkaim, Meshorer Ivri BeMarocco" (in Hebrew: R' David Elkaim, Hebrew poet in Morocco), Apyrion No. 1, Spring 1983, pp. 96-102; Shalom Sabar, "Ketubah Mehuderet..." (in Hebrew: Elaborate Ketubah of the community of Mogador, Morocco, 1898, by the artist R' David Elkaim, the leading illuminator of ketubah in Mogador), Brit 25, 2006, pp. 18-21]. Key words: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israelite, Israel, antisemitism, antisemitism, dreyfus, meguila, sepharad, ketubah
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