{"id":1369,"date":"2013-01-24T21:06:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2013-01-31T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:26:06","slug":"dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room-3\/","title":{"rendered":"DRBR 3: In which a ketubah is pre-printed and passed by the censor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image copyright Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Used with permission. Click to see larger image.<\/p><\/div>DR4-L5 is a pre-printed ketubah from Russia, 1857, with gaps left for the names and date. We do this today. Nice to know we\u2019ve been doing it for a long time.<\/p>\n

The ketubah\u2019s in a folder with the passport of its owner, who was a cantor. One supposes he travelled a bunch; you\u2019re supposed to take your ketubah with you when you go away travelling, so presumably he kept it tucked inside his passport.<\/p>\n

A loyal reader translated the Russian at the bottom for us. It says:<\/p>\n

KESUBA
\ni.e.
\nAn example of the property registered by Jews for their wives
\nPrinting permitted.\u2014 Wilno, January 8, 1857. Censor, A. Mukhin
\nWILNO, in the Typography of R. M. Romm. 1857<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t know that Hebrew printing in mid-nineteenth-century Russia was censored. Lots of governments have historically been suspicious of ethnic groups printing things in foreign languages, and they employ bilingual people as censors, but I’d not considered Russia. It makes sense, given that restrictions on Jews were piling up.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Amir E. Aharoni! (Visit Amir’s blog at http:\/\/haharoni.wordpress.com\/otiyot-niqqud\/)<\/p>\n

Concerning the text itself, I typed it out for you, so that you can see it’s basically just the same as today’s regular ones. I didn’t transcribe the handwriting.<\/p>\n

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