| #5067534 in Books | 2007-08-21 | Format: Bargain Price | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.75 x6.25l, | File type: PDF | 235 pages||About the Author|Bluma Goldstein is Professor Emerita in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in the European Wilderness (1994).
This illuminating study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ("chained wives")--women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce--and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tra...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Enforced Marginality: Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) | Bluma Goldstein. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
