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ketubahs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Traditional Jewish marriage contracts, traditionally written in Aramaic and signed by witnesses, setting out reciprocal duties of husband and wife, including the husband's obligation to pay the wife a certain sum in the event of divorce, and the wife's property rights upon his death.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Laufer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-076
Abstract

Papers of the Laufer family, Polish immigrants who ran a kosher restaurant on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Materials include an original Laufer's Kosher Restaurant business card, naturalization certificates, a ketubah, and two family photographs. Most materials are photocopies. Also included are 12 cupping glasses or "bankas" used for medicinal purposes.

Dates: 1910-circa 1945
Found in: Special Collections

Rabbi Jacob S. Raisin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1075
Abstract Clippings, correspondence, sermons, programs, certificates, diplomas, diaries, photographs, objects, and other papers of Jacob S. Raisin, Reform rabbi, author, and scholar. Raisin's writings focused on ethical behavior, intellectual history, religious observance and tradition. Materials also relate to Raisin's wife, Jane Lazarus Raisin, their children, Mordenai Lazarus Raisin Hirsch, Rachel Marla Raisin, and Aaron S. Raisin, and other family members, Raisin's record of professional...
Dates: circa 1700, 1889-2009
Found in: Special Collections

Solomons family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1103
Abstract

Photographs, genealogical materials, financial and legal papers, ketubah, and correspondence of the Solomons family of Sumter, South Carolina. Materials primarily relate to the family of Augustus Aurelius Solomons, Sumter merchant, and youngest son of Mark Solomons and Rachel Rodrigues Solomons. Solomons' parents are reputed to be Sumter's first permanent Jewish settlers, moving to the area circa 1820.

Dates: 1800s-1941
Found in: Special Collections
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