ISBN:
9780520249684
Language:
English
Pages:
XXV, 206 S
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2007
Series Statement:
S. Mark Taper Foundation/Jewish studies
DDC:
296.4/444
Keywords:
Agunahs
;
Jewish women Legal status, laws, etc
;
Jewish women in literature
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Aguna
;
Geschichte
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Jüdin
;
Trennung
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue : finally out in the open -- Abandoned wives in Jewish family law : an introduction to the agune -- Doubly exiled in Germany : abandoned wives in Glikl Hamel's memoirs and Solomon Maimon's autobiography -- The victims of adventure : abandoned in Abramovitsh's Benjamin the Third and Sholem Aleykhem's Menakhem-Mendl -- Agunes disappearing in "a gallery of vanished husbands" : retrieving the voices of the abandoned women and children -- An autobiography of turmoil : abandoned mother, abandoned daughter
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p.187-198) and index
URL:
http://scans.hebis.de/19/01/06/19010676_toc.pdf
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