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Reuben spoke in the marketplace with two men, inviting them to come to his house for the purpose of giving them the monies accrued from a business partnership, and they entered his house…
Contributor:
Yom Tov ben Israel Jacob Algazi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1800
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In the year 303 [1543], Joseph Catalan claimed that he had married his betrothed Regina, daughter of Moses Ḥayim, on Yom Kippur in front of the gate of her father’s courtyard, by giving her a shawl…
Contributor:
Joseph Ibn Lev
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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Sivlonot were, traditionally, gifts from the groom to his bride before the wedding. German Jewish brides and grooms gave each other belts, which were then worn during the wedding ceremony, sometimes…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
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17th Century