Tagged: Noa Shashar

August 1, 2025

The 57 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2025

Here are the 57 books I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in April 2025. The image contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site”...

The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 by Noa Shashar

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April 24, 2025

The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850 by Noa Shashar

Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law A long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in...