Introduction
The National Library of Israel located in Jerusalem has an online Database dedicated to ketubot (marriage
contracts) from all over the world at:
https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/jewish-collection/ketubbot/Pages/default.aspx. This database includes the marriage contracts from its
own collection but also from various Israeli institutions such as the Ben Zvi Institute, Museum of Israel, etc as well as from
large collections from outside the country such as the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), the Dahan Collection (Brussels) etc.
The present index includes 138 ketubot from Acre, Beit Shean, Haifa, Hebron, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Pekiin, Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Safed, Tel Aviv and Tiberias The period covered by these ketubot begins in 1816 and ends in 1946 and includes 550 persons.
For each ketuba, the researcher will find its url in order to be able to immediately view it as well as the surnames of the groom and bride, their given names and their fathers' names.
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