Enforced Marginality: Jewish Narratives on Abandoned Wives (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)

by Bluma Goldstein (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $78.08

  Explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. This book analyzes texts in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English at the intersection of disciplines to describe the dynamics of power between men and women in traditional communities and to elucidate the experiences abandoned women faced.