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Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850

AvNoa Shashar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-23
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Brandeis University Press
ISBN:9781684582419

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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.

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“[Shashar] bridges the gap between halakhic scholarship and social history. The result is both rigorous and humane: a history of law that reads as a history of feeling. Shashar . . . deepens our understanding of gender, law, and emotion in early modern Ashkenaz, and her archival method is both original and illuminating.”

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PrefaceIntroductionSection 1: Widows and Yevamot in the Ashkenazic World in the Early Modern AgeSection 1, Part 1: Widows in the Ashkenazic world, 1648–1850Section 1, Part 2: Yibum and halitzahSection 1, Part 3: The halitzah trapSection 2: Dead Men, Chained WomenSection 2, Part 1: “Bitterly she wails”: Agunot in times of persecution and warSection 2, Part 2: Two tales of murderSection 2, Part 3: Identifying the dead in the interest of freeing the agunah and taking revengeSection 2, Part 4: “Nothing of him was ever found save a shoe and belt”: Freeing an agunahwhen the corpse is missingSection 2, Part 5: The agunah wife of Lemli Wimpe of MetzSection 2, Part 6: Death of a merchant: Gutta and Avraham Heckscher of HamburgSection 3: Troubled MarriagesSection 3, Part 1: Scenes from marriages in conflictSection 3, Part 2: “Concerning the agunah whose husband left for distant parts”Section 4: The Riddle of the SourcesAfterword: The agunah, the decisor, and the sufferingGlossaryBibliography