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Huppah Stone (Traustein)
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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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Artist Unknown

Places:

Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen, Germany)

Date:

1700

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Art, Architecture, Sculpture

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Architecture, Sculpture
Stone with carving of star in center and flowers on either side.
Kiddushin and Wedding Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723

Subjects:

Marriage, Ritual & observance, Ritual objects, Community, Cities

Categories:

Print & book culture
Two-panel drawing, the top of many people in interior room, some seated on right side under canopy, and the bottom of many people outside with a central figure with veil.
Torah Shield, Dedicated to Sarel bat Moses Tsoref, from Her Husband
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This seventeenth-century silver repoussé and partly gilt Torah shield from Germany is inlaid with semi-precious stones. In the center of the shield appear the ten commandments in a Hebrew inscription…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Synagogue, Marriage, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Ritual Objects
Shield with decorative border inlaid with semi-precious stones and adorned with lions and crown at top, column on left and plaque in middle with Hebrew text.