The Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problems: Background and Halakhic Sources

by Blu Greenberg and Aviad Hacohen

New Book Seeks Agunah Solutions An Israeli legal scholar offers rabbinic sources to show precedents for leniency in freeing women from marital limbo. Debra Nussbaum Cohen--Staff Writer. A new book by an Israeli legal expert, Aviad Hacohen, promises to return to public attention the legal technique used to dissolve the marriages of agunot, women whose estranged husbands refused to grant them a Jewish divorce, an approach which prompted waves of controversy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881258679
• ISBN13: 9780881258677
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
• Length: 107 Pages