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TRADITION VERSUS MODERNI1Y: WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN A JUDEO-SPANISH NOVEL by Rebecca Scherer l Rebecca Scherer is an independent scholar who has been a Visiting Scholar in the Judaic Studies Program at Brown University (1989190). She is currently working on a translation of Judeo-Spanish folktales from the Balkans and Turkey. This article is part of her ongoing investigation of the relationship between the Judeo-Spanish oral tradition and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Judeo-Spanish literature. The traditional Eastern Sephardi family structure was patriarchal. As in the Moroccan Jewish family, described by laskier, the father was the central dominating figure, exercising authority over all members of the household. Family arrangements, marriages included, were his responsibility, and under his guidance the daughter was married, usually through his intercession with the groom and his family. This process was implemented without seeking the bride's consent. 2 This situation continued, in large part, both with respect to the father's domination in general and to the conditions under which a woman married, into the twentieth century. However, the introduction of Western 'The author would like to express her gratitude to Daniel GolTman for facilitating the publication of this article. 2Michael M. Laskier, tbe
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1994
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