The Wed-Locked Agunot

Orthodox Jewish Women Chained to Dead Marriages

Susan Aranoff, Rivka Haut (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7967-2 (ISBN)

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For three decades Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut have battled to free agunot, Orthodox Jewish women chained to dead marriages because their husbands refuse to give them a gett, a Jewish divorce. These chained women, citizens of modern Western democracies, may be civilly divorced, yet they are forced into rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these rabbinic courts women are subject to financial extortion, pressured to drop charges of domestic violence and paedophilia against their husbands and to concede custody and visitation rights to unfit fathers--all to induce their husbands to free them.

Well-versed in the intricacies Jewish divorce law, Aranoff and Haut have counselled thousands of agunot and challenged the Orthodox rabbinate's inaction in the face of the injustices inflicted on these women. Aranoff and Haut take the reader into the rabbinic courts and their ancient, revered legal texts, onto the picket lines against recalcitrant husbands, into American civil divorce courts and legislatures that wrestle with this problem and into the lives of the victimized women and children.

The agonies endured by agunot reveal the power of religious law over people's lives even when that law sharply conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms.

Susan Aranoff is a professor of economics at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, USA. She has published numerous articles about women and Jewish law in anthologies and periodicals and lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Israel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The late Rivka Haut was a Jewish Orthodox scholar, feminist and activist. She held an advanced degree in Talmud, and taught and lectured extensively on Jewish and halachic topics, particularly related to prayer and the Agunah crisis and wrote numerous articles and book chapters. She lived in Bronx, New York, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Prologue

Introduction

1. The Founding of Agunah Inc.

2. Our Initiation

3. We Take to the Streets

4. Surveying Batei Din

5. The Phantom Ketubah

6. Extortion: Every Man Has His Price

7. When the Recalcitrant Is a Rabbi

8. Two Thanksgivings in Parsippany

9. Violence and Sexual Abuse

10. Conferences

11. Child Brides

12. The Beit Din That Couldn’t

13. A Success Story

14. Civil Remedies: The New York State Gett Laws, or, Less Than Meets the Eye

15. Prenuptial Agreements

16. The Rackman Beit Din: A Watershed

Conclusion

Glossary

Pseudonyms

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2015
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7864-7967-1 / 0786479671
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7967-2 / 9780786479672
Zustand	Neuware