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For German Jews, it was traditional in the wedding ceremony for the groom to perform the ritual of breaking a glass in remembrance of the destruction of the Temple by hurling it or banging it against…
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Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen, Germany)
Date:
1700
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The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, ketubot outline the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and are written in Aramaic. This ketubah was copied and…
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1754
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This Biedermeier-style sofa from Danzig, with birch veneer over pine, may have been commissioned on the occasion of a marriage. The oval on the seat back contains an image of clasped hands, and the…
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Danzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Gdańsk, Poland)
Date:
1838