The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850: Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law
Autor Noa Shasharen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 dec 2024
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781684582402
ISBN-10: 1684582407
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Brandeis University Press
Colecția Brandeis University Press
Seria Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law
ISBN-10: 1684582407
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Brandeis University Press
Colecția Brandeis University Press
Seria Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
“The Marital Knot examines halakhah’s impact at its most consequential and personal. Shashar engages an astounding array of sources and analytical methodologies, and her insistence on combining the theoretical with the processual, the intellectual with the sociocultural, introduces a critical dimension to the accepted narrative about iggun.”
“In this insightful book, the complexities of Jewish marital law are brilliantly unpacked. The author skillfully illuminates the struggles faced by agunot, weaving together historical, social, and legal perspectives to offer a deeply empathetic exploration of a crucial topic within Jewish legal and social discourse.”
“The Marital Knot masterfully interweaves women’s voices from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, revealing a rich tapestry of law and culture in which human destiny resonantly whispers, seeking in vain to reclaim what was lost, reliant on—yet confined by—halakhic law and societal norms.”