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Women in chains : a sourcebook on the agunah

Title
  1. Women in chains : a sourcebook on the agunah / edited by Jack Nusan Porter.
Published by
  1. Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, ©1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Porter, Jack Nusan.
Description
  1. xx, 265 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Agunahs
  2. Jewish women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  3. Jewish women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Israel
  4. 11.29 Judaism: other
  5. Agunahs
  6. Ehescheidung
  7. Judentum
  8. Frau
  9. Vrouwen
  10. Jodendom
  11. Orthodoxie
  12. Echtscheiding
  13. Jewish women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  14. Jewish women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Israel
  15. United States
  16. Israel
Contents
  1. Introduction: The Agunah -- A Personal Perspective / Jack Nusan Porter -- 1. Of Human Bondage / Lucette Lagnado -- 2. Playing Hard to Get / Peter Hellman -- 3. The Rabbinical Ties That Bind / Glenn Frankel -- 4. The Agunah: An Ancient Problem in Modern Dress / Sharon Shenhav -- 5. A Horror Story -- Ours / Netty C. Gross -- 6. "The Altar Weeps": Divorce in Jewish Law / Irwin H. Haut -- 7. Jewish Woman in Jewish Law: Solutions to Problems of Agunah / Moshe Meiselman -- 8. Ruminations over the Agunah Problem / Moshe Chigier -- 9. Taibele and Her Demon / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- 10. Agunot / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- 11. Till Death Do Us Part / Rochelle Majer Krich -- 12. Agunot: Is the System Working? -- Agunah, Inc.: "No" / Susan Aranoff, Rivka Haut and Susan Alter -- A Beit Din Responds: "Yes" / Leib Landesman -- Letter to the Editor: False Accusations by Agunah, Inc. / Labish Becker -- 13. Tragedy Compounded: The Aguna Problem and New York's Controversial New "Get Law" / Chaim Dovid Zwiebel -- 14. The Agunah Problem and the So-Called New York State Get Law: A Legal and Halachic Analysis / Marvin E. Jacob -- 15. A Modern Orthodox Perspective / Shlomo Riskin -- 16. Conservative Judaism and the Agunah / Sidney H. Schwarz -- 17. Jewish Women's Rights: For the Love of Law / Blu Greenberg -- 18. Grappling with Divorce and Jewish Law / Steven Feldman -- 19. Getting a Get / Honey Rackman -- 20. The Struggle of the Agunot / Francine Klagsbrun.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index.