Jewish Divorce Proceedings
Jan Luyken
1683
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This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a get (a writ of divorce).
Credits
Jan Luyken, Joodse echtscheiding, 1683. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.