Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Goldstein, Bluma.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 206 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Subject:	Agunahs. Jewish women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Jewish women in literature. Jewish literature -- History and criticism. Agunahs. Jewish literature. Jewish women in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157020

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ISBN:	9780520933415 0520933419 9781435611351 1435611357 9780520249684 0520249682 1282359185 9781282359185 1433709775 9781433709777
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 describes the dynamics of power between men and women.
Other form:	Print version: Goldstein, Bluma. Enforced marginality. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520249684 0520249682

Table of Contents:

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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