In sickness and in health?
An early 20th century Indian Jewish marriage certificate may indicate the groom had just recovered from a serious malady.
Last Sunday, I watched a Harry Friedman Society talk by Joanne Rosenthal, former chief curator and exhibitions head at Jewish Museum London, about her 2019 exhibit “Jews Money Myth.” One of the slides she shared leapt out at me from among the others: a 1911 kesubah (marriage document) from Calcutta.
Atop the page, two lions flank a decorated orb bearing …