Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

by ChaeRan Y. Freeze

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the century were astronomical compared to the non-Jewish population. Even more surprising is her conclusion that these divorce rates tended to drop later in the century, in contrast to the rising pattern among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584651601
• ISBN13: 9781584651604
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 11.1"