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An Exhibit of Jewish Wedding
Certificates and Dresses

February 22~ March 22, 2009

Exhibit Hours
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday

Ketubot from as early as the 1700’s will be on exhibit. Included are a WWII era Jewish marriage certificate stamped with a swastika, Bettina Donau Steinfeld’s wedding certificate as well as a 1910 Russian wedding certificate and an Italian 1901 ketubah. Twenty-three wedding dresses, antique and contemporary, are also on exhibit. They include a black wedding dress from the late 1800’s, a copy of a wedding dress sewn in 1946 from a German WWII parachute and worn by a bride who had been liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and a wedding bonnet worn in the first synagogue in the United States.

The exhibit include items on loan from: The Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC., The Jewish Museum of New York, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, The Historical Society of Georgia, The Jewish Historical Society of North Carolina, The Herman Shapiro Family Archives, Knoxville, Tennessee, The Savannah Jewish Archives, Savannah, Georgia, as well as loans of Ketubahs and other articles from numerous local individuals.

FREE to Museum members.
Admission : $5.00
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