Lot 288
Ketubah and Marriage Documents - Harbin (China), 1933
Ketubah and marriage documents from Harbin, China:
• Ketubah, printed in color (Warsaw: Ch. Jacobson - M. Goldberg), filled-in by hand, recording the marriage of the groom Yaakov son of Avraham Kogan, to the bride Sheva daughter of Eliezer Keilis. Harbin, 1933.
• Marriage certificate (in Russian), issued by the "Hebrew Community in Harbin", confirming the above marriage. Signed by the rabbi of the city - R. Aharon Moshe Kiselev, the community chairman and the secretary; with the stamp of the community board.
• Certificate (in Russian) issued by the Harbin police, regarding the above marriage. Including official stamps (in Chinese and Russian) and a revenue stamp. Printed text in Chinese on the verso.
Harbin, China, was home to a small Jewish community, established on the eve of WWI by Russian immigrants. The first and last rabbi of the community was R. Aharon Moshe Kiselev (1866-1949), a Chassid of Lubavitch, disciple of the "Gadol of Minsk" and R. Chaim Soloveitchik. He arrived there in 1913, after serving for many years as rabbi of Borisov (Barysaw), Minsk region. In 1937, he was unanimously appointed chief rabbi of all the Far East communities. With the Chinese conquest of the city from the hands of the Japanese, and the establishment of communist rule in China, the Hebrew community of Harbin came to an end.
3 paper items. Size and condition vary.
