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Romance & ritual : celebrating the Jewish wedding / edited by Grace Cohen Grossman.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM713 .R66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skirball Cultural Center.
- Jewish marriage customs and rites--Catalogs.
- Jewish marriage customs and rites.
- Skirball Cultural Center--Catalogs.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Romance and ritual
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Skirball Cultural Center ; [Seattle] : In association with University of Washington Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Presents Jewish marriage rituals and customs from different times and places through a diversity of treasured heirlooms while capturing the romance of weddings.
- Contents:
- Preface: "Bone of My Bone, Flesh of My Flesh" / Uri D. Herscher 7
- Introduction: Finding the Perfect Match / Grace Cohen Grossman 11
- Law or Custom?: The Historical Evolution of Jewish Wedding Ceremonies / Tal Gozani, Didier Y. Reiss 21
- "May He Grow Up to the Huppah": Representations of the Wedding on Ashkenazi Torah Binders / Shalom Sabar 31
- Traditional and Transitional Bridal Costumes in Middle Eastern Jewish Communities / Esther Juhasz, No'am Bar'am Ben Yossef 47
- Pomp, Circumstance, and the American Wedding / Jenna Weissman Joselit 57
- Beloved Companions: Portrait Pairs in the Skirball Collection / Barbara C. Gilbert 67
- Ketubbot 78
- Wimpeln 86
- Bridal Tableaux 92
- A Nuptial Fortnight in Djerba / Keren Tzionah Friedman 119
- A Wedding Album 122
- A Guide to Wedding Rituals / Tal Gozani 135
- Conservation of Wedding Costumes in the Exhibition / Sharon K. Shore 137
- Recommendations to a Modern Bride / Cara Varnell 139.
- Notes:
- Includes catalog of an exhibition by the same name.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.
- Presented to the Penn Libraries from the collection of Grace Cohen Grossman.
- ISBN:
- 0970429517
- OCLC:
- 48781296
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