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Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives
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Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives / Bluma Goldstein.
ISBN
9780520249684 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520249682 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xxv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
Contents
Prologue : finally out in the open
Abandoned wives in Jewish family law : an introduction to the Agune
Doubly exiled in Germany : abandoned wives in Glikl Hamel's Memoirs and Solomon Maimon's Autobiography
The victims of adventure : abandoned wives in Abramovitsh's Benjamin the Third and Sholem Aleykhem's Menakhem-Mendl
Agunes disappearing in "a gallery of vanished husbands" : retrieving the voices of the abandoned women and children
An autobiography of turmoil : abandoned mother, abandoned daughter
Epilogue.
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