Jewish Marital Captivity

Auteur

Shulamit S. Magnus is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Oberlin College. She is the author of several books, including the 2-volume Pauline Wengeroff, Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, the first volume of which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award.

Texte du rabat

"This book presents the first global history of Jewish marital captivity (iggun), and of women chained in marriage against their will (agunot), from early medieval times to the present and across the Jewish world, analysis and critique of current policy about it in the US and Israel, and proposals to end the abuse"--