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abandoned Jewish women
agunah
Ashkenazi culture
Author_Noa Shashar
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family
Jewish law courts
Jewish women's history
marriage and divorce
Rabbinic decisors
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- ISBN 9781684582419
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Brandeis University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
Noa Shashar is a lecturer at the Sapir Academic College in Israel. She is the author of several books, including Vanished Men: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 (Hebrew), Not on Bread Alone: The Krell Murachovski Family Histories, and Mazkeret Rishonim: A History of the Levin and Miller Families from Mazkeret Batya & Rishon Lezion.
