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Marriage Contract Form (Ketubah)

Creator: Chaim Gross
Type: Lithograph on paper
Year: 1979
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum

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Join the 16th Street Book Club for a discussion of The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer!

Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm

When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Dedicating himself to uncovering the secrets of their relationship, Daniel discovers a web of mysteries leading back to pre—World War II Vienna. Ambitious, haunting, and stunningly written, The Marriage Artist is an “elaborate psycho-political-sexual puzzle, with…hard truths, startling visions, and eerie insights into the mystical and memorializing powers of art, and that endless hunger we call love” (Booklist).

Learn more about the book club here.

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