1974 (Twayne Publishers, distributed by Bobbs-Merrill) (English)
Pages
265
ISBN
978-0-672-51954-3
The Agunah is a 1974 English translation by Curt Leviant of the 1961 Yiddish novel Di Agune (די עגונה) by Chaim Grade. It was also published in a 1962 Hebrew translation, Ha-Agunah (העגונה).
The novel is set in the Jewish part of Vilna, Lithuania, around 1930. It concerns a woman whose husband was missing in action during the First World War, and who was thus an agunah, a woman who could not remarry according to Jewish law. The woman in the novel is not interested in remarrying, but eventually, between pressure from her family and to escape an obnoxious suitor, she accepts the marriage proposal of a minor acquaintance. They find a maverick rabbi who is willing to grant permission, and the two marry in secret and move to a part of Vilna where nobody knows them. But the secret comes out, and the resulting controversy, fanned by the obnoxious suitor, sends the community into a tumult.
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with Jewish survival in the wake of the Holocaust. Grade's most highly acclaimed novels, TheAgunah (1961, tr. 1974) and The Yeshiva (2 vol., 1967–68...
required him to issue a Get. The term agunah is often used in such circumstances, but it is not technically accurate. Within both the Conservative and Orthodox...
husband is missing without sufficient knowledge that he died, called an agunah, is still married, and therefore cannot remarry. Under Orthodox law, children...
on serious innovations. In 1935, for example, the RA shelved its proposal for a solution to theagunah predicament. "Conservative Judaism" was adopted...
the modern Beth din, rabbinical court, to help in situations such as theAgunah, a woman whose husband had left her without granting her a Get, the religious...
The Jewish prenuptial agreement has been developed in recent times with the stated intent of keeping the Jewish woman from becoming an agunah in cases...
In 1990 Agunah Day was established by ICAR—The International Coalition for Agunah Rights—to raise public awareness of the plight of theAgunah and galvanize...
Similarly, if the brother is missing, the woman is required to wait until he is located. This can lead to a situation similar to an agunah. According to...
nations" as in the Great Commission. Since Deuteronomy 24:1-4 did not give Jewish women the right to directly initiate a divorce (See Agunah), did Jesus'...
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tradition in general. In 1935, the RA almost adopted a groundbreaking motion: Rabbi Louis Epstein offered a solution to theagunah predicament, a clause that...
back to life to free his wife from agunah. Rabbi Hirsch Fraenkel was sentenced to imprisonment in Germany in 1713, on the basis of having a library of books...
literally "touch", is the concept in Jewish law (Halakha) that forbids or restricts sensual physical contact with a member of the opposite sex except for...
that there is a problem in the way the laws of a Jewish marriage are laid out; specifically they question the laws of Agunah. While it is almost universally...
adjudicated by a modern bet din (rabbinic court) in order to prevent the problem of theagunah, a woman not allowed to remarry religiously because she had never...
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get, or otherwise upon his death. A woman who lacks the ability to remarry is known as an agunah. Joseph Masri, a taxi driver from Kiryas Joel, New York...
an agunah if the husband never returned. The rabbis instituted and tightened prohibitions on domestic violence. Rabbi Peretz ben Elijah ruled, "The cry...
the Yiddish originals of TheAgunah and The Yeshiva. In 1971, the Farband joined with Poale Zion, the Labor Zionist Organization of America, and the American...
helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union, attempted to resolve the dilemma of theAgunah, President of Bar-Ilan University...
Library. Leviticus Rabbah, 25 Between Civil and Religious Law: The Plight of theAgunah in American Society, Irving Breitowitz, Greenwood Press, 1993....
in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course...
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