Jewish weddings

EXHIBITION: CT Humanities provides funding for wedding exhibit at Jewish Historical Society (West Hartford News).

WEST HARTFORD >> The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford recently received a grant from Connecticut Humanities to partially support its upcoming new exhibit, “Breaking The Glass: The American Jewish Wedding.”

This grant will be used to help design and fabricate text panels detailing the history of the Jewish wedding. The catalogue accompanying the exhibit will also contain information on the wedding rituals and traditions of several other faiths to provide further insight into the importance of the wedding ceremony throughout the world..

A highlight of the exhibit will be antique wedding gowns from the UCONN Historical Costume and Textile Collection, and reproductions of ancient ketubot (marriage contracts) from the Beinecke Library Judaic Collection at Yale University. ...

More on Jewish marriage contracts (ketubot/ketuvot) here and links.