Ora Pikel-Tzabari.

Jerusalem, Israel, 2013. 165 pp., illustrations: 109 col., 11 b&w, 23.4 × 19.7 cm. Hebrew and English.

Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum (Opening: September 2013)

Customs and ceremonies of Jewish weddings in Jerusalem, mid-19th–mid-20th C, a period during which significant changes took place in the city’s appearance, rulers, languages, dress and customs. Four catalog essays: “Bridegroom, Bride and Wedding Photos” (Nirit Shalev Khalifa), “I Set Jerusalem Above My Chiefest Joy” (connecting the breaking the glass at the wedding and the Zecher le-Churban panel in the home) (Yehuda Levy Aldema), “Child Weddings in Jerusalem’s Old Yishuv” (Ora Pikel-Tzabari), and “Our Weddings: Weddings in the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem” (Ora Pikel-Tzabari). Exhibition material displayed in six categories: dowry and betrothal gifts, invitations, wedding apparel, ketubbot, photographs and wedding gifts. Descriptive entries and family recollections. No itemized listing.

BRIDAL GARMENTS
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
JERUSALEM
KETUBBOT
PHOTOGRAPHS
WEDDING/MARRIAGE
WEDDING GIFTS (SIVLONOT)
WEDDING INVITATIONS

Amulets
Bridal boxes/chests
Clocks/Watches
Dowry items
Eretz Israel
Etrog containers
Hanukkah lamps
Head coverings, men’s
Henna ceremony/objects
Historical documents
Historical photographs
Jewelry
Jewelry boxes
Kiddush cups
Mikvah items
Needlework/Embroidery
Porcelain
Portraits, husband-wife pendants
Prayerbooks/Mahzors
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Talit bags
Tobacco/Snuff boxes
Zecher le-Churban plaques