I’m getting back to Ben-Ur’s excellent book on the Jews of Suriname after reading the first half about a month ago. Many of her observations seem shrewd, and she adds a lot to the literature on this subject. Still, I found this comment somewhat implausible - am I missing something?She is discussing four ketubbot in which the bride and/or groom are called “meshuhreret” and “meshuhrar,” indicating slave origins. She wants to know of the backgrounds of all eight, and entertains the possibility that one freeborn partner who was “bar Avraham” could have been an Ashkenazi because he signs in Rashi script, and many Portuguese knew no Hebrew.I had supposed that Ashkenazim typically signed in one of various forms of their own cursive scripts, usually known for its exceptional curliness. By “Rashi” I am assuming she means the handwriting of Sephardim, which is much closer to the “rabbinic script” that is vulgarly named for Rashi. Wouldn’t that make it more likely that he was of Sephardic roots?I’d like to hear your perspectives.