judaism confronts wifebeating
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Graetz, Naomi
- Creator
- Dorff, Elliot N. > (introd.)
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, echtscheidingen, joodse vrouwen, religieus recht, wetgeving, heilige teksten, jodendom, onderzoek
- Description
- The purpose of this book is to present the attitudes on wifebeating that can be found in Jewish texts. The rabbinic responses to wifebeating in the Jewish community are not monolithic. Many 'agunot' (anchored or chained women) have been created as a result of those rabbis who are unwilling to use halachic means (Jewish legal tradition) to free wives from oppressive husbands, by not forcing the husband to give his wife a Jewish bill of divorce ('get').