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Torah Ark Curtain
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This Torah ark curtain from Venice was made by Simḥah, the wife of Menachem Levi Meshuallami, a member of a prominent family in the Venice ghetto. It is embroidered in silk and silk-metallic thread…

Contributor:

Wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1680/1

Subjects:

Textiles, Ritual object, Jerusalem, Ketubot, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Cloth with embroidered image of tablets in clouds above mountain and city.
Weissberger-Lenson Ketubah
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This staunchly Reform ketubah—it is entirely in English—reflects the changing nature of the Hebrew Publishing Company, which had long published primarily for the Yiddish- and Hebrew-using immigrant…

Contributor:

Joseph Werbelowsky

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Ketubot, Marriage, Ritual object, Reform Judaism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
Page of printed English text surrounded by decorative border, with small image of wedding on top of page, with spaces for signatures and handwritten text throughout text.