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The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900 - A Social History of East European Agunah (Paperback)
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The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900 - A Social History of East European Agunah (Paperback)
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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 (978-1-78976-167-2).
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