Jewish Divorce Proceedings

1683

Print image of men and one woman in room, next to man sitting at raised desk. — This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a *get* (a writ of divorce).

Credits

Jan Luyken, Joodse echtscheiding, 1683. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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