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NB1: The contents of these
paper are purely theoretical. Nothing written or cited in them is
intended for use in practice. Any practical question in the area of
personal status in Orthodox Judaism, whether touching upon marriage,
divorce, bastardy or conversion, must be submitted to those with the
appropriate Orthodox halakhic authority.
NB2: These working papers are
periodically updated. To receive alerts of such updates, please send an
e-mail request to bernard.jackson@manchester.ac.uk
1.
B.S. Jackson, "Agunah and the Problem of Authority" - Text of lecture
delivered in London on 13th March 2001 under the auspices of the
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and
Jewish Studies and the Jewish Law Publication Fund Trustees http://www.mucjs.org/2001jlpf.pdf
2.
B.S. Jackson, "Agunah and the Problem of Authority: Directions for
Future Research", Melilah 2004/1, pp.1-78 - a much expanded, fully
documented version of the above lecture: http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/2004/1.pdf
3.
B.S. Jackson, “Agunah: Problems of History and Authority”, Paper
delivered at JOFA Fourth International Conference on Feminism and
Orthodoxy, New York, November 10th, 2002, http://www.mucjs.org/jofaweb.htm
4. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "The Plight of the 'Agunah
and Conditional Marriage" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit,
June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/2005/1.pdf
5.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Rabbi Morgenstern's Agunah Solution" (Working
Papers of the
Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Morg.pdf
6.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "A critique of Za'aqat Dalot" (Working Papers
of the Agunah
Research Unit, June 2008):
http://www.mucjs.org/ZD.pdf
7.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Halakhah - Majority, Seniority, Finality and
Consensus"
(Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Consensus.pdf
8.
B.S. Jackson, "Preliminary Report of the Agunah Research Unit" (Working
Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, December 2006): http://www.mucjs.org/PrelimRep.pdf
9.
Avishalom Westreich, "Compelling a Divorce? Early Talmudic Roots of
Coercion in a Case of Moredet" (Working Papers of the Agunah
Research Unit, May 2008):
http://www.mucjs.org/Moredet.pdf
For a Hebrew version, now published in Bar-Ilan Studies in Law 25-2 by Bar-Ilan University Press click here.
10.
Avishalom Westreich, "'Umdena: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kidushey
Ta'ut) and Terminative Condition" (Working Papers of the Agunah
Research Unit, November 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Umdena.pdf
11.
Avishalom Westreich, "Annulment of Marriage (Hafka'at Kiddushin):
Re-examination of an Old Debate" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research
Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Annulment.pdf
For a Hebrew version, to be published (with minor revisions) in Sidra, click here.
12.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Hafqa'ah, Kefiyyah, Tena'im" (Working
Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/HKT.pdf
13.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Comments on "'En Tenai BeNissu'in" by
R. Zevi Gertner and R. Bezalel Karlinski" (Working Papers of the Agunah
Research Unit, November 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Gertner.pdf
15.
Dr. Avishalom Westreich, "History, Dogmatics and Hermeneutics: The
Divorce Clause in Palestinian Ketubbot and the Geonic
Compulsion of Divorce" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit,
March 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/DivorceClause.pdf
16. Shoshana Borocin-Knol, "An Historical Overview of Some Overt Ideological Factors in the Development of the Agunah Problem" (PhD thesis; Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Knol.pdf
17. Nechama Hadari, "The Concept of Will in the Jewish Law of Divorce" (PhD thesis; Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Hadari.pdf
18. Yehudah Abel, "Confronting 'Iggun. A combination of three possible solutions to the problem of the chained wife in Jewish Law" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/ConfrontingIggun.pdf
19. Yehudah Abel, "Comments on R. Broyde's Tripartite Agreement" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Broyde.pdf
22. Bernard Jackson, "Draft Final Report" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, January 2010): http://www.mucjs.org/ARUDraftFinalv.2.pdf N.B.This January 2010 version replaces that of July 2009 (minor corrections and a few substantive additions). A fully revised and final version will be issued in print form. Responses may continue to be sent to bsj@legaltheory.demon.co.uk
23. Bernard Jackson, "Summary Draft Final Report": http://www.mucjs.org/SummaryReport.pdf. This is a 48 page summary of the Full (210 page) Report (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, January 2010). We hope in due course to produce a Hebrew version.
24. Bernard Jackson, "Key Points from Agunah Report". This 5-page Executive Summary is available in both English and Hebrew.
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