Jüden Schul (Jewish Synagogue)

Johannes Buxtorf

1603

Chapter 28: About the Wedding of the Jews

When the engagement of two parties occurs, many Jews are invited, young and old, and they gather in a big room and each of the young Jews has a new [earthenware] pot or jar in his hand. Then one of them comes and reads the marriage document, that N. son of N., and N. daughter of N. have been betrothed to…

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Johannes Buxtorf

1599–1664

Johannes Buxtorf the Elder was a prominent Christian Hebraist. Born in Westphalia in Germany, the son of a minister, he studied at Marburg and then at the Herborn Academy, a Calvinist institution of higher learning. He was professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at the university in Basel and was known by the title Master of the Rabbis. He is best known for his book, Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry.

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