Translating the Ketubah
Book • 2025
Translating the Ketubah traces the history and cultural significance of the Jewish marriage contract as it migrated and transformed in Anglo-American contexts.
Benjamin Steiner explores translation choices, legal implications, and how translations shaped and reflected social understandings of marriage.
The book situates the ketubah within broader debates about gender, legal pluralism, and modernity.
By examining archival sources and translated texts, Steiner reveals how the ketubah mediated cultural assimilation, legal recognition, and communal identity.
The study contributes to scholarship on family law, ritual texts, and Jewish social history.
Benjamin Steiner explores translation choices, legal implications, and how translations shaped and reflected social understandings of marriage.
The book situates the ketubah within broader debates about gender, legal pluralism, and modernity.
By examining archival sources and translated texts, Steiner reveals how the ketubah mediated cultural assimilation, legal recognition, and communal identity.
The study contributes to scholarship on family law, ritual texts, and Jewish social history.
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Zev Eleff et al. eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
