The marital knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi realm, 1648-1850

"What kind of reality was imposed on Jewish women who found themselves agunot, literally "chained women," and what could they do to extricate themselves from their plight? How did rabbinic experts with the authority to free agunot discharge their task and what were the outcomes of the...

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1. Verfasser: Shashar, Noʿah (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Friedman, Sara P. (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waltham, Massachusetts Brandeis University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Brandeis series on gender, culture, religion, and law
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
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Zusammenfassung:"What kind of reality was imposed on Jewish women who found themselves agunot, literally "chained women," and what could they do to extricate themselves from their plight? How did rabbinic experts with the authority to free agunot discharge their task and what were the outcomes of the fact that the agunot were dependent on the male rabbinic establishment?"
"A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the fate of agunot, literally 'chained women,' who were often considered a marginal group. Who were these men and women? How did Jewish society deal with the danger of a woman's becoming an agunah? What kind of reality was imposed on women who found themselves agunot, and what could they do to extricate themselves from their plight? How did rabbinic decisors discharge their task during this period, and what were the outcomes given the fact that the agunot were dependent on the male rabbinic establishment? This study describes the lives of agunot, and by reexamining the halakhic activity concerning agunot in this period, proposes a new assessment of the attitude that decisors displayed toward the freeing of agunot."
Beschreibung:xxxiii, 366 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781684582402
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