Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives /
Explores 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. This book also explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. It d...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007. |
| Series: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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