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Jewish Bride in Fürth
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This print depicting a veiled Jewish bride assisted by two other women is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350…

Contributor:

Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Women, Family, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Print & book culture, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving of woman in veil flanked by two other women, standing before a stone building.
Marriage Ceremony
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This illustration depicting a Jewish wedding taking place under a huppah (wedding canopy) near a synagogue appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Women, Dress, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Print & book culture, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving of crowd of people outside of building gathered around couple under wedding canopy.
Arbol de vidas, en el qual se contienen los dinim mas necessarios que deve observar todo Ysrael (Tree of Life, in Which Are Included Those Laws Most Necessary for All Israel to Observe)
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The will of the creator is that the world should be sustained, expanded, and populated daily by man, whom he shaped for his glory. That is, indeed, why he created this great machine, and…

Contributor:

Abraham Vaez

Places:

Bayonne, France

Date:

1692

Subjects:

Ritual & observance, Marriage, Women, Sex, Purity

Categories:

Theology