Enforced Marginality: Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives - Rilegato

Goldstein, Bluma

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ISBN 10: 0520249682 ISBN 13: 9780520249684

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2007

Riassunto

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 tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to describe the dynamics of power between men and women within traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of experiences abandoned women faced.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520249682
• ISBN 13: 9780520249684
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 206
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile