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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
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
1748
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This pitcher from Nuremberg, Germany, was made around 1650. Cast in silver, the repoussé piece is finely traced and engraved with floral patterns. On its lid sits a shield engraved with a Hebrew…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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ca. 1650|1732
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Johann Valentin Schüler
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Late 17th Century
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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
Contributor:
Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732
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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
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Koppel ben Moses Heller
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1840
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1813
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1833–1834
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Johann Conrad Weiss
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1711/1712
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
Date:
1735