"In The #Marital Knot: #Agunot in the #Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850 (Brandeis University Press), Dr. #NoaShashar of #SapirAcademicCollege in #Israel, has written an absolutely fascinating #book that details the plights of agunot from the time of the #Khmelnytskyuprising to 1850.

While agunot today are a somewhat rare occurrence, in the period she writes of, wars, persecution, accidents, and natural disasters, as well as travel along dangerous roads, the possibility of assuming a false identity, and conversion to Christianity, all made agunot not uncommon in the least.

The book details the lives of agunot during 1648-1850 and the men who brought about this situation. It traces the states of these #widows, whose husbands were nowhere to be found."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-the-marital-knot-agunot-in-the-ashkenazi-realm-1648-1850/

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The widow of a fallen soldier kisses his ID tag, watched by her daughter, on Valentine’s Day in Love Alley, created to honour men killed in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

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