Enforced Marginality: Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Prologue: Finally Out in the Open xiii 1. Abandoned Wives in Jewish Family Law: An Introduction to the Agune 1 2. Doubly Exiled in Germany: Abandoned Wives in Glikl Hamel’s Memoirs and Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography 10 3. The Victims of Adventure: Abandoned Wives in Abramovitsh’s Benjamin the Third and Sholem Aleykhem’s Menakhem-Mendl 49 4. Agunes Disappearing in “A Gallery of Vanished Husbands”: Retrieving the Voices of Abandoned Women and Children 92 5. An Autobiography of Turmoil: Abandoned Mother, Abandoned Daughter 130 Epilogue 152 Notes 163 Bibliography 187 Index 199 This page intentionally left blank ...