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The Marriage of Regina
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The whole city was talking about Regina’s wedding. I should tell you first that Regina is one of our former students. People were saying, “Yes, Regina is à la franca” (the expression means “European…

Contributor:

Djamilé Douec

Places:

Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Marriage, Community, Class, Education, Women, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
Marriage and Migration: Trials of a Jewish Immigrant in Cuba
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December 6, 1913, Havana To his Eminence Monsieur Haim Nahum, Chief Rabbi of Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Constantinople [Istanbul]. Monsieur Rabbi, I have the honor of bringing the following facts to…

Contributor:

Marco Bonomo

Places:

Havana, Cuba

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Marriage, Divorce, Family, Children, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letters
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…

Contributor:

Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1799–1800

Subjects:

Marriage, Love, Salon, Women, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters
Engraving of woman seated in front of a tree at a table, facing the viewer with her left elbow resting on the table and her right hand holding a book in her lap.