Noa Shashar

A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. The Marital Knot by Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the fate of agunot, literally "chained women," who were often considered a marginal group. Who...