(It's that one archive where you inevitably come across the most incredible finds, while looking for something else entirely!)

Turns out this document has a particular significance, as an early example of what Eve Krakowski calls "personalized behavioral stipulations" resembling those in Islamic marriage contracts. See her award-winning book: (of which I've yet to acquire a copy!) press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Here is a partial translation of the prenup: pic.twitter.com/eLGtdshdUU

Source: repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/27… (p. 16 of PDF) It's featured there alongside a number of other cool items from the major Genizah exhibition at Cambridge in 2017, which I sadly missed (but which my partner got to see, and saved the catalog for me all the way across the Atlantic!)

This document apparently caught the eye of a reporter who visited the exhibition in 2017 and dwells on it in the Guardian: theguardian.com/culture/2017/a… She also notes a case of "a wife threatening a hunger strike...in protest against her husband’s behaviour" (see p. 18 of above PDF) pic.twitter.com/EDAFqNhjt8

Is there a translation for the whole thing?

Indeed! Mordechai A. Friedman, “Pre-Nuptial Agreements with Grooms of Questionable Character: A Geniza Study,” Dine Israel VI (1975): CV–CXXII.

Cc @JihadiJew @EdanRing you may like this

Looks like men haven’t changed in over a thousand years

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