A ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) dating from 1884 in Kingston, Jamaica, is set to be sold Wednesday by Sotheby’s Auction House in New York City as part of its auction of “Important Judaica.”
Sotheby’s said while it regularly offers ketubot in its auctions, such a document from Jamaica is a first for the auction house and – it believes – the auction world as a whole.
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The document in question solemnized the marriage of David ben Abraham Nunes Henriques and Amy bat Alfred Delgado in Kingston on August 14, 1884, according to Sotheby’s. The auction house said the bride’s grandfather, Moses Delgado, was a significant figure in Jamaica’s Jewish community, and one of the leaders of the movement to grant full civil rights to Jews in the former British colony.
While Jamaica’s Jewish community today numbers less than 200, at its peak several thousand Jews – including many fleeing persecution from the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions – lived on the Caribbean island.
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The auction house estimates the piece of Jamaican Jewish history will be sold for $8,000 to $12,000.
The ketubah is one of 226 lots of Judaica being auctioned by Sotheby’s this week. The auction also includes a 13th-century Torah scroll from Spain. Sotheby’s said the manuscript, written by Israel ben Isaac Ben Israel of Toledo, is expected to sell for between $200,000 and $300,000.
An Italian parochet (curtain covering a Torah ark) from 1755 is also up for auction, and is estimated to fetch $100,000-$150,000. The parochet, which is hand-embroidered on royal blue silk, includes motifs of grapes, pomegranates and flowers. The embroidered words along the edge identify the artist as Simha Viterbo.
Jamaica has way more than 200 jews! unbeknownst to a lot of those high society and ordinary jamaicans, their ancestors gave up the practice for a variety of reasons, also where is the documents for the establishment of what we come to know as Falmouth trealawy by some prominent jews? are they gonna auction those?
Mi tell oonu seh Most Jamaican’s are original hebrews, we were conquered and captured by the Islamist who now occupy most of North Africa, it was the islamist who sold us to the white man… From Israel to Egypt/Kemit to Lybia Morroco Tunisia is all our home land…
Those in Israel now where converted to our original faith which is Judaism as we are from the tribe of Judah… Those Palestinians in the west bank are been kicked out because the converted jews know the truth, that the land does not belong to them cause they are islamists who invaded us and took over our land…. This document is more proof that our ancestors are hebrews….
Wake up people… They will say we come from West Africa cause our dna traces back there, actually that is where the ships docked and we were loaded on board… They wont trace our dna to israel or eygpyt cause none of us are left there….
Dat Mi Seh
Thank u for the lesson
This document is about immigrant ppl from western Europe who lived in Jamaica and got married, not black African ppl.
While the original Hebrew ppl may very well have been black, that does not mean the most Jamaicans are Hebrew. Further, what is so special about being Hebrew? Because these ppl wrote that they were God’s chosen ppl and created stories to paint themselves in a good light means it is true. They controlled their own narrative and sold it to the world and most have bought into it. They at least understood the power of being insular and placing a high value on one’s self. So many ppl today actually believe Hebrews are spiritually superior to them because they wrote it and sold it to the world, now so many are clamoring to claim Hebrew blood instead of realizing that they are participants in one of the greatest magic trick ever pulled off in history. Hebrews are not God’s chosen ppl. There is nothing spiritually more special or valuable about a Hebrew than anyone else.
The original Hebrews were mystics, sorcerers, alchemists and ppl who dealt deeply in the spirit world using arcane and forbidden knowledge to advance themself. They are still flourishing today because the otherworldy contracts that were drawn up by their ancestors still hold. Even the ones with no Hebrew blood still benefit because they keep the rituals and remember the important days.
This is indeed interesting.
Big up your self Ms Met….
Dat Mi Seh….
That’s how you know they lied to us and it good fi read and try get fi know who we really are. I promise if we the ppl knew…..
@anonymous 1:32
That is an official document of the Black Jamaican government, they who married did not produce thier own marriage certificate it is a officiql certificate of the island….
Yes the Hebrews are the Most Hi chosen people, but whoever accepts the saviour Yahshua
will also be amongst the chosen, still many hebrews have lost they way inna babylon…
Still the fact remain many of Jamaicans qnd African Americans are hebrews …
And the biggest secret is the Arab slave trade…
Up to today the islamists arabs are in North Sudqn pushing the blacks down into the south…
Any African who is a muslim have been conned as that religion was forced upon them….