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The Agunah

novel by Grade

Also known as: “Di agune”

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discussed in biography

In Chaim Grade
Grade’s novel Di agune (1961; The Agunah) concerns an Orthodox woman whose husband is missing in action in wartime and who, according to Orthodox Jewish law, is forbidden to remarry, lest she enter into an adulterous union. In the ambitious two-volume Tsemakh Atlas (1967–68; The Yeshiva), Grade reveals Jewish life…
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