Collection of Ketubot, Divorce Documents, Letters and Other Documents – Stockholm, 19th Century

Collection of Ketubot, Divorce Documents, Letters and Other Documents – Stockholm, 19th Century
Collection of Hebrew documents, from the archive of Stockholm rabbis – legal documents on parchment, a letter and a certificate. Stockholm, ca. 1850-1880s:
· Two Ketubot. Scribal script on parchment, with witnesses' signatures. One Ketubah contains corrections and deletions (to serve as draft for a different Ketubah). Stockholm, 1852-1858.
· Four divorce documents, scribal script on parchment with witnesses' signatures. Stockholm, 1867, 1871, 1877, 1880. Each document bears a Beit Din tear (special tear, realized in a specific way, confirming the document was transmitted from the man to the woman).
· Letter from Yaakov Bressler, to R. Yehuda Leib Lewysohn, Rabbi of Stockholm. Polotsk (Poland), Nissan 1867. Regarding the agunah from Polotsk, whose husband fled to Sweden (see more about this agunah in other letters which appeared in Kedem Auction 8, February 2010, item 522).
· "Moreinu" certificate, accorded to the community leader R. Avraham son of R. Eliyahu Palentine, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Signed by the rabbis of the city: R. "Yehuda Leib Lewysohn, formerly rabbi in Stockholm", "Gad [Gottlieb] Klein Rabbi in Stockholm". Stockholm, Chanukah [1883]. Within color ornamented border, hand painted. Tear and damage.
[R. Gottlieb Klein, arrived in Stockholm from Hungary ca. 1882].
6 parchment items and 2 paper items. Varying condition and size.