Sephardic Ketubot from Algeria

33 Records

Marriage Records · Algeria · 1832–1953 · The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection

Background

The National Library of Israel located in Jerusalem has an online database dedicated to Ketubot (marriage contracts) from all over the world at http://web.nli.org.il/. 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, part of The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection, includes 33 Ketubot from Algiers, Anaba (Bone), Blida and Oran. The period covered by these Ketubot begins in 1832 and ends in 1953, and includes some 140 persons.

Source: National Library of Israel (Jerusalem) online Ketubot database, which gathers marriage contracts from the Library’s own holdings and from Israeli and international collections.
Fields Recorded

For each Ketuba, the researcher will find:

URL — A link to the Ketuba in the National Library of Israel database, in order to be able to immediately view it
Groom’s Surname and Given Name
Groom’s Father’s Name
Bride’s Surname and Given Name
Bride’s Father’s Name
Research Notes
Name Spellings

The surnames are here spelled according to their usual forms as they were written in French. The given names are spelled according to transliteration rules.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z”l who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential. Mathilde compiled this index from the National Library of Israel’s online Ketubot database.

In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.

Searching This Database

The Sephardic Ketubot from Algeria can be searched via the JewishGen Sephardic Database or the JewishGen Unified Search.

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Last updated April 2021.
This database is part of The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection at JewishGen.