Week 8: Divorce
Required Reading (BA and MA):
An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, Pp.13-14 (Westbrook), 47-48 (Piattelli), 192-193 (Lifschitz), 235-238 (Libson), 319 (Grossman), 350-353 (Passamaneck), 372-374 (Fram), 384-387 (Novak)
Required Reading (MA)
Rayner, J.D., "From Unilateralism to Reciprocity. A Short History of Jewish Divorce", in Jewish Religious Law. A Progressive Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 1998), 163-183 (on order)
Further Reading:
Bleich, J.D., "Compelling the Husband to Divorce: The Device of the 'Sages of Spain'", in Maimonides as Codifier of Jewish Law, ed. N. Rakover, Jerusalem: Jewish Law Heritage Society, 1987, pp.237-253 (order)
Bleich, J.D., "Indirect coercion in compelling a get", The Jewish Law Annual 5 (1985), 65-71 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Bleich, J.D., "Refusal to grant a religious divorce", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), 179-183 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Bleich, J.D., "The Agunah Problem", in Bleich, J.D., Contemporary Halakhic Problems (New York: Ktav. 1977), pp.159-159 (SLC 296.42/B1)
Chigier, M., "Ruminations over the Agunah Problem", Jewish Law Annual Vol. 4 (1981), 208-225 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Cohen, S.J., "The United States Constitution and the Jewish Community: The Recalcitrant Husband and the Chained Woman (Agunah)", in E.A. Goldman, ed., The Jerusalem 1994 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996: Jewish Law Association Studies, VIII), pp.21-40 (on order)
Cohen, S.Y., "The Halakhic and Legal Aspects of Enforcement of Divorce in Israel (an abstract)", in E.A. Goldman, ed., The Jerusalem 1994 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996: Jewish Law Association Studies, VIII), pp.41-42 (on order)
Daiches, S., "Divorce in Jewish Law", Journal of Comparative Legislation 8 (1926), 215 (Store Journal)
Edelman, M., Courts, Politics and Culture in Israel (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994), 61-66, Short Loan: 349.5699/E1
Edelman, M., "Entangling Alliances: The Agunah Problem in the light of Avitzur v. Avitzur", The Jewish Law Annual 8 (1989), 193-210 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Elon, M., "The Sources and Nature of Jewish Law and its Application in the State of Israel", Israel Law Review 4 (1969), Pt. IV (Per.Law: Red 3 ISRAEL)
Elon, M., Jewish Law, History, Sources, Principles (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994), Vol. II pp.631-642, 658-665 (Blue 4, 349.33/E1)
Friedell, S.F., "Jewish Divorce in American Courts - The New York Experience", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Touro Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985: Jewish Law Association Studies, I), 25-28 (on order)
Friedman, M.A., "Divorce upon the wife's demand as reflected in Manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza", The Jewish Law Annual 4 (1981), 103-126 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Frimer, D., "Israel Civil Courts and Rabbinical Courts Under One Roof", Israel Law Review 24 (1990), 553-559 (Per.Law: Red 3 ISRAEL)
Haut, I.H., Divorce in Jewish Law and Life. New York: Sepher-Hermon, 1983 (349.33/H17 1, Short loan)
Ish-Horowitz, M, "The Problem of Iggun and its Solutions", in E.A. Goldman, ed., The London 1996 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997: Jewish Law Association Studies, IX), pp.91-102 (on order)
Kahan, L.S., "Note: Jewish Divorce and Scular Courts: The Promise of Avitzur", Georgetown Law Journal 73 (9184), 173-224 (ask BSJ)
Lew, J.D.M., "Jewish Divorces", New Law Journal (6 Sept. 1973), 829 (Per.Law: Red 3 NEW)
Lövestam, E., "Divorce and Remarriage in the New Testament", The Jewish Law Annual 4 (1981), 47-65 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Maidment, S., "The Legal Effect of Religious Divorces", Modern Law Review 37 (1974), 611 (Per.Law: Red 3 MODERN)
Meislin, B.J., "Civil Court Enforcement of Agreement to Obtain a "GET"", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), 224-228 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Meislin, B.J., Jewish Law in American Tribunals (New York, Ktav, 1976), 71-95 (on order)
New, V., "Non-financial pressures on a husband to grant a "get"", The Jewish Law Annual 6 (1987), 210-215 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Riskin, S., Women and Jewish Divorce: the Rebellious Wife, the Agunah and the Right of Women to Initiate Divorce in Jewish Law. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989 ("in process")
Schereschewsky, B., "Divorce", Encyclopedia Judaica VI.122-135 (Folio Theol.Ref. 296/E27)
Shindler, J., "The Cure before the Malady? Pre-nuptial Agreements and Jewish Divorce" L'Eylah 42 (1996), 35-38 (ask BSJ)
The Jewish Law Annual Vol. 4 (1981): esp. articles by Washofsky, Bleich, Novak, Meislin, Freeman (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Yaron, R., "On Divorce in Old Testament Times", Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquité 1957 (Per Law: Red 3 REVUE)
further bibliography at http://users.aol.com/agunah/bib-agun.htm
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