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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.

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Marriage, Life cycle, Cities, Synagogue, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Decorative arts, Print & book culture
Etching of ceremony under marriage canopy outside a building, surrounded by people and framed by decorative motif.
Statement upon the Publication of Denkschrift an die hochgeehrte Wiener israelitische Cultus (Memorandum to the Esteemed Viennese Israelite Religious Community)
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In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…

Contributor:

Salomon Sulzer

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1876

Subjects:

Music, Synagogue, Ashkenazi, Poetry, Life cycle

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music