Chaeran FreezeBrandeis University · Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Chaeran Freeze
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:This article examines a court case of newborn child murder in nineteenth-century Vilna. In 1890, the state indicted a group of Jewish women for running a lucrative baby-farming business in which they hired out unwed mothers as wet nurses and extorted their salaries in exchange for the care of their illegitimate offspring—most of whom died from n...
When Ita Myshkind learned that her husband had remarried before delivering the official get (bill of divorcement), she filed criminal charges against him in state court. “My husband,” she claimed, “Wishing to use my capital and valuable possessions, married me with the premeditated intention of divorcing me.” She complained that a few months after...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brandeis University,1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. 546-568). "UMI:9718576." Photocopy. s
