The plight of Jewish deserted wives, 1851-1900 : a social history of East European Agunah /
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| Author / Creator: | Sperber, Haim, author. |
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| Imprint: | Eastbourne ; Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press, 2023. ©2023 |
| Description: | 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12867351 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The plight of Jewish deserted wives, 1851-1900 : |b a social history of East European Agunah / |c Haim Sperber. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Eastbourne ; |a Chicago, IL : |b Sussex Academic Press, |c 2023. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2023 | |
| 300 | |a 185 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-171) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "Agunot (Agunah, sing., meaning anchored in Hebrew) is a Jewish term describing women who cannot remarry because their husband has disappeared. According to Jewish law (Halacha) a woman can get out of the marriage only if the husband releases her by granting a divorce writ (Get), if he dies, or if his whereabouts is not known. Women whose husbands cannot be located, and who have not been granted a Get, are considered Agunot. The Agunah phenomenon was of major concern in East European Jewry and much referred to in Hebrew and Yiddish media and fiction. Most nineteenth-century Agunot cases came from Eastern Europe, where most Jews resided (twentieth-century Agunot were primarily in North America, and will be the subject of a forthcoming book). Seven variations of Agunot have been identified: Deserted wives; women who refused to receive, or were not granted, a Get; widowed women whose brothers-in-law refused to grant them permission to marry someone else (Halitza); women whose husbands remains were not found; improperly or incorrectly written Gets; women whose husbands became mentally ill and were not competent to grant a Get; women refused a Get by husbands who had converted to Christianity or Islam. The book explores the reasons for desertion and the plight of the left-alone wife. Key is the change from a legal issue to a social one, with changing attitudes to philanthropy and public opinion at the fore of explanation. A statistical database of circa 5000 identified Agunot is to be published simultaneously in a separate companion volume." -- publisher | ||
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