Select Bibliography

 

Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut, The Wed-Locked Agunot: Orthodox Jewish Women Chained to Dead Marriages (2015).

 

Susan M. Weiss and Netty C. Gross-Horowitz, Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel’s Civil War (2013).

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Noa Shashar, גברים נעלמים: עגונות במרחב האשכנזי, 1648-1850  [Gevarim ne'elamim]; The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850.

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Extensive Bibliography in Shulamit S. Magnus, Jewish Marital Captivity: The Past, Present, and End of a Historic Abuse

 

Podcasts

 

See listing on the website of the Center for Women’s Justice of podcasts about agunot and divorce in Chief Rabbinate courts, conducted by to’enet rabbanit, Rivka Lubitch, and Attroney Nitzan Caspi-Shiloni.

 

Center for Women’s Justice Halakhic Prenuptial Agreement

 

מרכז צדק לנשים

https://www.shtar-eng.cwj.org.il

 

The CWJ prenup is an agreement meant for Jewish couples who marry in accordance with halakha. It addresses the halakhic challenges of both get refusal. Read more