- An
aguna or
agunah (Hebrew: עֲגוּנָה, romanized: ʿaḡunā, lit. 'anc****d or
chained [woman]', plural: עֲגוּנוֹת, ʿaḡunoṯ) is a
Jewish woman who is stuck...
- The
Agunah is a 1974
English translation by Curt
Leviant of the 1961
Yiddish novel Di
Agune (די עגונה) by
Chaim Grade. It was also
published in a 1962...
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possibility of
remarriage within Orthodox Judaism. Such a
woman is
called an
agunah (עגונה, "anc****d [woman]," as in tied down to the
previous marriage, thus...
-
Legal responses to
agunah are
civil legal remedies against a
spouse who
refuses to
cooperate in the
process of
granting or
receiving a
Jewish legal divorce...
- In 1990
Agunah Day was
established by ICAR—The
International Coalition for
Agunah Rights—to
raise public awareness of the
plight of the
Agunah and galvanize...
- his
whereabouts were
unknown for any reason, the
woman was
considered an
agunah (literally "an anc****d woman"), and was not
allowed to remarry; in traditional...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Agunah is a
halachic term for a
Jewish woman who is "chained" to her marriage.
Aguna or
agunah may also
refer to:
Aguna (butterfly)...
-
modern bet din (rabbinic court) in
order to
prevent the
problem of the
agunah, a
woman not
allowed to
remarry religiously because she had
never been granted...
-
husband is
missing without sufficient knowledge that he died,
called an
agunah, is
still married, and
therefore cannot remarry.
Under Orthodox law, children...
- Manchester, Co-Director of its
Centre for
Jewish Studies and
Director of its
Agunah Research Unit (2004–09). Latterly, he was (PT)
Professor of Law and Jewish...
