Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "From the chuppah! From the chuppah! / Play louder fiddle, flutes! / Make way for the groom and bride! / May happiness accompany your love!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "The maiden becomes a bride soon / A chuppah is put in place / 'Behold! You are…' whispers Motel / And happy is his world!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the steps of the Jewish life cycle, starting from birth, through childhood to bar mitzvah, then marriage and children, ending with old age.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with text excerpted from Genesis 2:24 : "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a request under the chuppah. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Dear God, see the couple / Standing there under the chuppah / Give them everything that they desire / Give them everything that they request."
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg entitled "the vision," with a Yiddish poem : "He casts a furtive glance at her / She coyly lets down her gaze / The old mother at the door / Beams with naches and happiness."
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the marriage ceremony of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia, held in the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London. Published in the January 29, 1881, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the marriage ceremony of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia, held in the Central Synagogue on Great Portland Street in London. Published in the February 19, 1881, edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. From Jüdisches Ceremoniel, first published by Paul Christian Kirchner in 1717, edited and reissued by the Christian Hebraist Sebastian Jugendres in 1724, published Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish marriage ceremony in Tangier. From The home and synagogue of the modern Jew : sketches of modern Jewish life and ceremonies, published London: Religious Tract Society.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the marriage ceremony of Albert Salomon von Rothschild and Bettina Caroline de Rothschild in the Grand Synagogue of Paris. From a drawing by Henri Meyer. Published in the April 2, 1876, edition of Le Journal illustré.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. Original illustration by Irving R. Wiles. From the article "The Jews in New York--II" by Richard Wheatley, published in the February 1892 edition of The Century Magazine.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. Engraving by William Kneass. From A dictionary of the Holy Bible : containing an historical account of the persons, a geographical and historical account of the places, a literal, critical, and systematical description of other objects, whether natural, artificial, civil, religious, or military... by John Brown, published Pittsburgh: Zadok Cramer.
Color offset print reproduction depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony at the Great Synagogue in London at Duke's Place, officiated by Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler. Published in the April 15, 1876, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a marriage ceremony of Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam. Engraving by Caspar Jacobsz Philips after a drawing by Jacobus Buys. From Oude en tegenwoordige staat en geschiedenis van alle godsdiensten, Volume 1, by William Hurd, published Amsterdam: M. de Bruyn, 1781-1791.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction depicting the marriage ceremony of Alphonse James de Rothschild and Leonora de Rothschild. Published in the March 14, 1857, edition of The Illustrated London News.
Black-and-white engraving depicting a marriage ceremony of Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new and univeral history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations in the world by William Hurd, published London: A. Hogg.
Black-and-white engravings depicting a marriage ceremony of Portuguese Jews, above, and Ashkenazi Jews, below, in Amsterdam. Engraving by Bernard Picart. From Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representées par des figures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses, Volume 1, published Amsterdam: J.F. Bernard, 1723-1737.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Moritz Oppenheim's painting The Wedding (Die Trauung). Published in the May 1, 1869, ediction of L'Univers illustré.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish marriage ceremony. From A sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity in the light of modern research and criticism by George Thomas Bettany.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish marriage ceremony. After a drawing by R. Taylor. From Ridpath's universal history, Volume 5, by John Clark Ridpath.
Color drawing depicting a groom purchasing a shtreimel for his wedding. Drawing by Gabriella Rosenthal. From Odd corners in Jerusalem : twelve coloured drawings (Simṭaʾot bi-Yerushalayim : 12 tsiyurim tsivʻoniyim me-et Gavriʾelah Rozenṭal) by Gabriella Rosenthal.
Black-and-white engravings depicting a marriage ceremony of Portuguese Jews, above, and Ashkenazi Jews, below, in Amsterdam. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a Jewish marriage ceremony. Text excerpted from the Sheva Brachot : "Voices of joy and gladness, voices of groom and bride."
