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- Title
Aguna (»die Verankerte«): Strategien gegen die Benachteiligung der jüdischen Frau im Eherecht (1400--1700).
- Authors
Keil, Martha
- Abstract
The article examines cases of how an "aguna," a married woman whose husband is away at war for an extended period of time or whose husband has died, was treated by Jewish law in the years between 1400 and 1700. Legal cases in the courts of Jewish communities in the cities of Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, Germany are discussed, as are the strategies the courts used, including reliable witnesses and the letter of divorce, "Get al tnai." Also noted is that rabbis were often sympathetic to the aguna.
- Subjects
GERMANY; AGUNAHS; DIVORCE (Jewish law); MARRIAGE (Jewish law); MARRIED women (Jewish law); JEWISH law; HISTORY of German Jews; HISTORY
- Publication
Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 2, p323
- ISSN
1016-4987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ASCH.2010.323