Enforced marginality
Subtitle: Jewish narratives on abandoned wives
By: Bluma Goldstein.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780520249684
Subjects: Agunahs; Jewish women -- Legal status, laws, etc; Jewish women in literature; Jewish literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.187-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : finally out in the open; title: Abandoned wives in Jewish family law : an introduction to the agune; title: Doubly exiled in Germany : abandoned wives in Glikl Hamel's memoirs and Solomon Maimon's autobiography; title: The victims of adventure : abandoned in Abramovitsh's Benjamin the Third and Sholem Aleykhem's Menakhem-Mendl; title: Agunes disappearing in "a gallery of vanished husbands" : retrieving the voices of the abandoned women and children; title: An autobiography of turmoil : abandoned mother, abandoned daughter.