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Jewish wedding ceremony, Kosice, Slovakia, 1947

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A Yemenite Habani Family Celebrating the Passover Seder at their New Home in Tel Aviv. April, 1946. Photographer: Zoltan (Zvi) Kluger (1896-1977). לע''מ/GPO

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This week, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

"I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!"

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life. - Dov Forman 

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Ketubbah with depiction of the banks of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, 1853. Handwritten on paper; ink, gouache, and gold powder

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A family of Moroccan Jews celebrates Mimouna, a post-Pesach holiday marking the return of eating chametz, in a downtown park in Jerusalem circa 1996. Photograph by Annie Griffiths, NatGeo Image Collection.

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Two Moroccan Jewish girls near Tiznit, 1932. By Jeanne Jouin.

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THE COSMIC ROSE

Engraving pictured in the book “Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae” (‘Schauplatz der ewigen allein wahren Weisheit’) written by Heinrich Khunrath, 1595.

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The triangle near the top contains a tetractys of the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew name of God). The five large Hebrew letters near the red jagged outline form the “Pentagrammaton”.

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Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles. The first synagogue in Los Angeles, founded in 1862 as Congregation B’nai B'rith.

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Yarmulke from Galicia, 18th - 19th century, from the National Museum in Cracow.

Yarmulke is a Yiddish word, deriving from the Polish/Ukrainian Yarmulka. By the 1500’s, the highly symbolic cap was accepted among Jews as the proper religious dress throughout the day. In Eastern Europe, it was either round or had a small point on it, and was sewn from various kinds of materials in different colors. Especially festive yarmulkes were white, or made of shpanyer arbet, a kind of open lace made from cords wrapped with gold or silver flat wire or thread.

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Cochin Jewish ketuba, the certificate of the marriage of Haim Hallegua to Miriam Koder, in 1923 - witnesses Abraham Cohen and Reuben Hallegua.

photo from India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, & Life-Cycle, courtesy of Samuel H. Hallegua, author of the chapter, "The Marriage Customs of the Jewish Community of Cochin."

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Silver binding for an Esther scroll. Italy, 18th century.

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Passover, 1976, from the series Six Holy Days - Fritz Eichenberg

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Jewish woman wearing a traditional pearled swalf in Fez, Morocco, 1930s

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Afghani Jewish bride

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Embroidered towels and inlaid clogs sent to a Sephardi bride for the hammam (Ottoman-era Jewish bath in Thessaloniki), Rhodes, Greece, 19th century

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Praying in front of the Ark of the Law in a synagogue in Ankara, Turkey, 1964.