Translating the Ketubah - Benjamin Steiner

A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translationTranslating the Ketubah offers a fresh perspective on the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract. Traditionally composed in Aramaic, ketubot have been examined in other books within the frameworks of Jewish law and Jewish art. Here, however, Benjamin Steiner shows how translations of the ketubah into English helped Jews adapt to changing social and economic circumstances across more than two centuries.Steiner... Zobrazit více