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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Senior de Mattos in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy, accompanied by…
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Artist Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1690
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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
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Koppel ben Moses Heller
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
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Jakob Steinhardt
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1913–1914
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
1748
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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Peter Fehr
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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Artist Unknown
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Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen, Germany)
Date:
1700
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I. W. Loewenbach
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1826
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1902