Silberstein, Solomon J. Takanoth Agunoth - Remedial Laws for Deserted Wives.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 55

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Silberstein, Solomon J. Takanoth Agunoth - Remedial Laws for Deserted Wives.

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Text in Yiddish. Additional title page in English. pp. 62. Title worn, small tear on final leaf. Contemporary boards, gutter split. 8vo. Not in Goldman (for author biography, see no. 1020).

New York: A. H. Rosenberg 1907

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $150

Concerns the legal and emotional tangle presented by the Agunah issue. No doubt written at a time of marital tension among immigrants, with dislocated families, lengthy or even permanent separations, all a result of immigration to America. The work engendered opposition from some rabbinic quarters due to the leniences advocated by the author.