Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives

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Label

Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives

Title remainder

Jewish narratives on abandoned wives

Statement of responsibility

Bluma Goldstein

Title variation

Jewish narratives on abandoned wives

Creator

• Goldstein, Bluma

Subject

• Agunahs
• Jewish literature -- History and criticism
• Jewish women -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Jewish women in literature

Language

eng

Summary

This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or <I>agunes </I>("chained wives")--women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce--and of the men who deserted them. From seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany to late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, <I>Enforced Marginality </I>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

Member of

• S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

KBM550.5

LC item number

.G65 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies