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Marriage Age in Jewish History

Marriage Age in Jewish History

Update: 2025-10-25
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During the 18th & first half of the 19th centuries, many members of the financial and rabbinical elite in Jewish Eastern Europe engaged in the practice of marrying off their children at a very young age. Why did they do that? How widespread was this practice? Why did it end? And what ramifications did this have on European Jewish life during this time and afterwards?


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Marriage Age in Jewish History

Marriage Age in Jewish History

Yehuda Geberer