Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating

by Naomi Graetz

The topic of battered women in the Jewish tradition has just begun to be properly explored. The purpose of this book is to present the attitudes on wifebeating that can be found in Jewish texts. As Naomi Graetz shows, rabbinic responses to wifebeating in the Jewish community are not monolithic.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998