Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Ketubah of Rabbi Eliyahu Klachkin – Jerusalem 1927

Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Ketubah printed in gold letters. With illustrations and drawings of the holy places, "with the consent of Beit-Din of the Perushim and Chasidim", Levi Printing House. Jerusalem, [1920's].
Ketubah for the wedding of Rabbi Eliyahu Klachkin and the widow Mussa Chen. Jerusalem 1927.
The Ga'on Rabbi Eliyahu Klachkin (1851-1931) Rabbi of Lublin, a famous Ga'on of his generation. After the death of his wife in 1925, he moved to Jerusalem by himself and married for the third time in 1927. (See enclosed material. Compare his attached handwriting with the Ketubah filled out by the groom himself).
38.5 cm. Good condition, slight tears to folds.
Levi Printing was active untill 1921, so that the Ketubah was printed in 1921 at the latest.
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