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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RuthEP, post: 10004924, member: 84346&quot;]Well, yes and no. It&#039;s a 1919 ketubbah from Aït Ayoub, Morocco. See the typical Morrocan border. Ketubbahs are traditionally written in aramaic, hence the difficulty in deciphering. The script is called solitreo and was common among mughrabi Jews. See also the tughra-like rabbi&#039;s signature, common in ottoman and formerly ottoman territories. I still haven&#039;t looked up the size of the Jewish community there to determine if it&#039;s rare, but either way it&#039;s a pretty find.</p><p>The bridegroom, by the way, is Moshe Abitbol, the bride Simha Zohar.</p><p>Quite a ketubbah - congrats.</p><p>Edit: Yaron Tsur (A Torn Community, 2002) quotes one census according to which it was a tiny community numbering 35 people, which could have been one family. Admittedly, this is after the massive immigration to France and Israel started, so it could have been a bigger community half a century earlier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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