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Enforced marginality : Jewish narratives on abandoned wives
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- Creator
- Bluma Goldstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520933419, 9781435611351, 0520249682, 9780520249684, 9780520933415, 1433709775, 1282359185, 9786612359187, 1435611357, 9781282359185, 9781433709777
- OCLC
- ocn182575792, ocm74353879, ocn476111598
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
- 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