Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

"Ketubah De'irkassa" – After the Holocaust

Opening: $120
Sold for: $188
Including buyer's premium
"Ketubah De'irkassa" is a Ketuba written after the original Ketuba was lost. Couples who survived the holocaust, needed to write a "Ketubah De'irkassa" since the original, first Ketuba was lost. In front of us is a collection of Ketubot printed especially for holocaust survivors:
1. Proclamation by Rabbi Yitzchak Zvi Ben Shmuel Yehuda Bernfeld. Jerusalem, Tishrei 1946. A call to obey the halachic rule of writing a "Ketubah De'irkassa".
2. Three Ketubot De'irkassa. Printed in Jerusalem.
3. Ketuba De'irkassa. Printed in Gewirtz printing press in Budapest, [ca.1946].
4. Vowelized Ketubah. Budapest, [ca.1946]. On the bottom of the leaf there are instructions how to fill out the Ketuba with perforation allowing to detach the instructions, and in back there are instruction in Hungarian.
Total of 7 items, various sizes and conditions.
Holocaust and Pogroms
Holocaust and Pogroms