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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.
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Publisher
Brandeis University PressYear
2024Print ISBN
9781684582402, 9781684582419eBook ISBN
9781684582396Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Widows and Yevamot in the Ashkenazic World in the Early Modern Age
- Chapter 1: Widows in the Ashkenazic World, 1648–1850
- Chapter 2: Yibum and Halitzah: The Halakhic Basis for Freeing an Agunah Awaiting Halitzah 41
- Chapter 3: The Halitzah Trap
- Part II. Dead Men, Chained Women
- Chapter 4: Bitterly She Wails: Agunot in Times of Persecution and War
- Chapter 5: Two Tales of Murder
- Chapter 6: Identifying the Dead in the Interest of Freeing the Agunah and Taking Revenge
- Chapter 7: “Nothing of Him Was Ever Found Save a Shoe and Belt”: Freeing an Agunah When the Corpse Is Missing
- Chapter 8: The Agunah Wife of Lemli Wimpe of Metz
- Chapter 9: Death of a Merchant: Gutta and Avraham Heckscher of Hamburg
- Part III. Troubled Marriages
- Chapter 10: Scenes from Marriages in Conflict
- Chapter 11: “Concerning the Agunah Whose Husband Left for Distant Parts”
- Part IV. The Riddle of the Sources
- Chapter 12: Heterei Agunah in Beit Din Records and Responsa Literature
- Afterword: The Agunah, the Decisor, and the Suffering
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index