Wedding

“No, I Want Dr. O.”

Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)

Online Feature
2021

Cardboard Key for the Korants’ Wedding

An unusual gift

Object in Showcase

Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album

A worthwhile insight into our archive

Online Feature
2017

The Dress of the Unfaithful Wife

Talk with Andi LaVine Arnovitz, Amy K. Milligan, and Emily D. Bilski on the role of women in religious Judaism

Audio Recording
9 May 2017

Why do women have to cover their hair with a wig or scarf after getting married?

Question of the Month
2014

Siegfried Leopold’s Get for His Wife Resi

Ritual bill of divorce under Jewish law

Object in Showcase

Albertine Mendelssohn-Bartholdy as a Bride

The subject of this painting resembles a Christian Madonna – but only at first glance

Object in Showcase

From Wedding Dress to Torah Curtain

Moses and Fromet Mendelssohn had a Torah curtain made out of Fromet’s wedding dress

Object in Showcase