Enforced Marginality : Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives /

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Explores the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives") - women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce and of the men who deserted them. This book also explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. It d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goldstein, Bluma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jewish women in literature.
Jewish literature.
Agunahs.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > Rituals & Practice.
Litterature juive > Histoire et critique.
Juives dans la litterature.
Agounot.
Jewish literature > History and criticism.
Jewish women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : finally out in the open
  • Abandoned wives in Jewish family law : an introduction to the Agune
  • Doubly exiled in Germany : abandoned wives in Glikl Hamel's Memoirs and Solomon Maimon's Autobiography
  • The victims of adventure : abandoned wives in Abramovitsh's Benjamin the Third and Sholem Aleykhem's Menakhem-Mendl
  • Agunes disappearing in "a gallery of vanished husbands" : retrieving the voices of the abandoned women and children
  • An autobiography of turmoil : abandoned mother, abandoned daughter
  • Epilogue.

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