To Build a New Home: Celebrating the 绿帽社 Wedding
May 18 鈥� August 14, 2022
To Build a New Home: Celebrating the 绿帽社 Wedding featured a collection of rare materials聽illustrating the creative, often surprising, evolution of 绿帽社 marriage practices over centuries.聽聽
The many treasures on view included lavishly decorated ketubbot, marriage contracts, from 17th and 18th century Italy; a 13th-century French religious compendium outlining marriage rituals and including a bawdy wedding poem; a fragment from a 12th-century prenuptial agreement; and from the modern era, a ketubbah making it possible for 绿帽社 women to initiate a religious divorce.
鈥淭o Build a New Home鈥� showed the remarkable development of 绿帽社 marriage from Talmudic times to the present鈥攁nd the rich streams of tradition and innovation in 绿帽社 life throughout history.
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The Huppah
Venetian Ketubah
A Karaite Ketubah
