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- noun Plural form of
ketubbah .
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Examples
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From the ketubbot (marriage contracts) we learn that each married woman was expected to engage in some kind of work in addition to running her household.
Genizah. 2009
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No two ketubbot are identical, reflecting the realities of life.
Genizah. 2009
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The marriages were performed with complete legitimacy, and the marriage contracts (ketubbot) had the right of preference over all debts, in favor of the women … Their income from personal property had the right of ownership as it was registered in the archive of the Jewish community.
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Grant Award that will go toward conservation of wedding contracts (ketubbot).
Museum Blogs 2010
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By contrast, it was customary to write in the ketubbot of musta’rabs in Palestine and Egypt: “Her labor is her own and he [the husband] must give her such and such per year for her clothing” (italics provided).
Levant: Women in the Jewish Communities after the Ottoman Conquest of 1517. 2009
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* image: just one of the many ketubbot in our collection.
Museum Blogs 2010
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