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…
The Breakers, Atlantic City. Postcard c. 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.
The Breakers was one of many grand hotels lining the Atlantic City coast in the 1940s. The area became a top vacation destination for East Coasters in the 20th century, perhaps propelled by increasing disposable income among the middle class and the adoption of proper swimming outfits by men and women. You can…
Trial of Jews of Trent
Year: 1478
Type: Manuscript, handwritten on paper
Country: Trent, Germany
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
In 1475, a two-year-old Christian boy named Simon disappeared in Trent, a small town in Germany. He was eventually found dead in the cellar of a local Jewish man, which began a blood libel and a fraudulent, violent investigation. Already brimming with…
Leonore Lanfer
Artist: unknown
Medium: black and white photograph
Date: circa 1900
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum