Marital Knot

Marital Knot

Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850

Shashar, Noa

Brandeis University Press

12/2024

400

Mole

9781684582402

15 a 20 dias

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Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Widows and Yevamot in the Ashkenazic World in the Early Modern Age
Section 1, Part 1: Widows in the Ashkenazic world, 1648-1850
Section 1, Part 2: Yibum and halitzah
Section 1, Part 3: The halitzah trap
Section 2: Dead Men, Chained Women
Section 2, Part 1: "Bitterly she wails": Agunot in times of persecution and war
Section 2, Part 2: Two tales of murder
Section 2, Part 3: Identifying the dead in the interest of freeing the agunah and taking revenge
Section 2, Part 4: "Nothing of him was ever found save a shoe and belt": Freeing an agunah
when the corpse is missing
Section 2, Part 5: The agunah wife of Lemli Wimpe of Metz
Section 2, Part 6: Death of a merchant: Gutta and Avraham Heckscher of Hamburg
Section 3: Troubled Marriages
Section 3, Part 1: Scenes from marriages in conflict
Section 3, Part 2: "Concerning the agunah whose husband left for distant parts"
Section 4: The Riddle of the Sources
Afterword: The agunah, the decisor, and the suffering
Glossary
Bibliography
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Ashkenazi culture;abandoned Jewish women;Rabbinic decisors;marriage and divorce;Jewish law courts;Jewish women's history;agunah;family