[Cz-L] Iuliu Barasch's Travel Log - Stage 6: What is a Sterntikhl/Sternbindel?

Czernowitzers...

Let's keep following the Galician-born Jewish physician, philosopher and writer on his adventurous journey to the Jewish communities in the Krakow Area, Galicia, Bukovina, Moldavia and Walachia:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2014/01/iuliu-baraschs-travel-report-on-jewish.html

March 11, 1843 - Stage 6: Still in Tarnów in Galicia, Iuliu Barasch has a focus on the traditional Jewish outfit at that time and especially on "The Sterntikhl/Sternbindel" as accurately visualized to all of us by Irene:

Presentation: http://hauster.de/data/Sterntikhl.pdf

Between 1/3 and 1/2 of the dowry were spent for "The Sterntikhl/Sternbindel"; what an unemployed capital! By the way, Iuliu Barasch examines the organization of marriages in mid 19th Century, which were far from love matches at that time.

German transcription: http://hauster.de/data/Barasch1843031110.pdf

Sotheby's: "The sterntikhl (Yiddish for 'forehead kerchief') is a distinctive and lavish head covering worn on the Sabbath and festivals by married women in Eastern Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Decorated with pearls and precious stones, it was a reflection of a family’s fortune. According to early accounts, affluent women would on occasion donate a precious stone from their sterntikhls to help a poor bride adorn her own. Historically, this sumptuous head covering was worn by both Hasidic and non-Hasidic women, but since the twentieth century, only a small number of Hasidic women continue this custom. Very few of the early examples of this distinctive head covering remain still extant."

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/a-treasured-legacy-steinhardt-n08961/lot.225.html

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands
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