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Tombstone of Isaac ben Hayyim
Artist Unknown
1728
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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.
This bucolic, and clearly romantic, scene of a humble home in a shtetl or village is characteristic of Pen’s style and subject matter. Best known as a painter of everyday Jewish life, he was the…
The process of ritual purification of a dead body, known as taharah, involves careful cleaning of the corpse. Prior to being dressed in a white cotton shroud, the body of the deceased is washed, the…
Picture Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Detail from The House with a Goat, Yehudah Pen.
The National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
Detail from Burial Comb and Nail Pick of the Bischitz Burial Society, Artist Unknown.
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Gift of Frances and Hubert J. Brandt, 2012-91.1-2. Photo by Richard Goodbody, Inc. Image courtesy of the Jewish Museum, NY / Art Resource, NY.