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- An aguna or agunah (Hebrew: עֲגוּנָה, romanized: ʿaḡunā, lit. 'anc****d or chained [woman]', plural: עֲגוּנוֹת‎, ʿaḡunoṯ) is a Jewish woman who is stuck...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- world that existed before the war". Grade's most acclaimed novels, The Agunah (1961, tr. 1974) and The Yeshiva (2 vol., 1967–68, tr. 1976–7), deal with...
- 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...
- 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)...
- the modern Beth din, rabbinical court, to help in situations such as the Agunah, a woman whose husband had left her without granting her a Get, the religious...