The illustrated Ketubbah is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is, first of all, a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times, but it is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wandering and just as much a part of today's Jewish wedding ceremonies as it was hundreds of years ago. This gorgeous collection of kettubim includes 48 color plates and 124 black and white photographs.

Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, and Klau Library (Philip and Muriel Berman Edition)

History

Sabar, Shalom

World

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

This unique view of the Holy City is a blend of compelling history and sumptuous visuals, featuring new scholarship and many previously unpublished images collected from all over the world.

Jerusalem Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art

Arts & Photography

Bahat, Dan

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

The custom of illuminating the traditional Jewish marriage contract, the ketubbah, developed over the last four centuries into a rich and varied form of Jewish folk art. This book offers a broad selection from one of the outstanding collections of ketubbot, representing Jewish communities from the Near East to Northern Europe. It focuses particularly on the ketubbot of Italy, where the art of the illuminated ketubbah found its most beautiful expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, under the influence of Renaissance and Baroque art. Co-produced with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, home to one of the largest collections of ketubbot, this book also offers a fascinating account of Jewish marriage customs and a vivid picture of diverse Jewish communities.

Ketubbah: The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract

Romance and Ritual explores the Jewish wedding and related themes of courtship and married life through customs and rituals from different times and places. Included are may treasured works, including rare, illuminated ketubbot (wedding contracts) from the 17th to 20th centuries and embroidered Wimpels or Torah binders; newly restored American wedding gowns from the late 19th century to the present accompanied by personal and touching stories; and mementos--postcards, sheet music, invitations--that celebrate the universal aspirations couples have when embarking upon marriage. Additional wedding clothing reflects Jewish communities in Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Rhodes. Portraits celebrate the virtues of marriage, depicting couples well into their marriages. Essays on wedding dress preservation and recommendations to the modern bride are also included. 
Though Jewish law stipulates very few requirements for a wedding, many special customs and rituals have been developed over time and in different countries to embellish this important personal event. The ketubbah documents the marriage. A huppa, or canopy, symbolizes the home the couple will build together. Blessings are recited and the bride and groom share from the same cup of wine. The giving of the ring represents the promise of the ancient wedding vow. Sometimes the groom breaks a glass, the bride circles the groom, family and friends lift the couple on chairs.

Romance and Ritual: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding

Gilbert, Barbara

Skirball Cultural Center

Gozani, Tal

Book and Slipcase: With its integration of fascinating historical text and spectacularly beautiful artworks collected especially for this purpose from all over the world, Jerusalem reveals itself as a unique blend of reality and imagination, matter and spirit.

Jerusalem, Stone and Spirit

Matan Arts Publishers Ltd.

This two-volume work contains a new facsimile edition of the Sarajevo Haggadah and a separate scholarly study of this outstanding monument of medieval Jewish art by Shalom Sabar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The facsimile is produced to a very high standard, affording vivid color and gold reproduction in line with the 14th-Century original. Both facsimile and study are bound in leather and presented in a slipcase.

The Sarajevo Haggadah: History and Art (English and Hebrew Edition)

National Museum of Bosnia & Herzegovina

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