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Responsum: On a Wayward Wife
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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…

Contributor:

Jacob Senior

Places:

Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)

Date:

Mid– to Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Conversion, Women, Violence, Life cycle, Marriage

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Jewish Betrothal Ceremony
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This illustration depicting a Jewish betrothal ceremony appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity. The first…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Synagogue, Ethnography, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving with groups of people in room talking, with open door to another room in background.