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Enforced Marginality - Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives (Hardcover)
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Enforced Marginality - Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives (Hardcover)
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This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of
modern Jewish history: 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. Looking at
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late
nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United
States, "Enforced Marginality "explores representations of
abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in
the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old
Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of
disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to
describe the dynamics of power between men and women within
traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of
experiences abandoned women faced.
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