- An
agunah or
aguna (Hebrew: עגונה \ עֲגוּנָה, aguná, plural: עגונות \ עֲגוּנוֹת, agunót;
plural form: agunot;
literally "anc****d" or "chained") is a...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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)...
- 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...
-
husband is
missing without sufficient knowledge that he died,
called an
agunah, is
still married, and
therefore cannot remarry.
Under Orthodox law, children...
- They have one son. "Between
Civil and
Religious Law: The
Plight of the
Agunah in
American Society" (Praeger, July 20, 1993, ISSN 0147-1074, ISBN 978-0-313-28471-7)...
- in the wake of the Holocaust. Grade's most
highly acclaimed novels, The
Agunah (1961, tr. 1974) and The
Yeshiva (2 vol., 1967–68, tr. 1976–7), deal with...
