| Love Letters: A Celebration of Jewish Love
The Book
Deluxe Edition
Prints
Tradition / Transition / Transformation
Testimonials
In the late 1960s, David Moss began to revive the handwritten, illuminated ketubah (pl. ketubot), the traditional Jewish marriage contract. The illuminated ketubah, a centuries-old artistic tradition, had virtually disappeared due to the development of quick and affordable printing.
Love Letters presents a vast collection of the stunningly imaginative illuminated ketubot of David Moss, creator of the acclaimed Moss Haggadah. He has extended the concept of the ketubah by also creating them for couples who wish to celebrate an anniversary by representing their marriage and Jewish values in this traditional art form.
Love Letters is more than artistry applied to a traditional religious text. It is an exploration of a larger subject matter—romantic love and marriage in Jewish thought, attitudes, and tradition. These universal themes are expressed most vividly in Moss’s original and memorable images, but also in moving quotations from Jewish sources, both ancient and modern, translated for this volume by Michael Swirsky, a well-known writer and educator.
Its tender subject matter and images are breathtaking in concept and execution, making Love Letters an engagement, wedding, or anniversary gift that will stir the heart.
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