[Avodah] Jewish Divorce Rate

[Richard Wolberg]

In response to some beliefs, the following may be of interest and much  
of a surprise to me:

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and  
divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia.
Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she  
shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in
the first half of the century were astronomical compared to the non- 
Jewish population.

"If that is not enough, evidence also indicates that there was a high  
level of divorce in Eastern Europe traditional Jewish society."
 From the article "It's All Relative: The Contemporary Orthodox Jewish  
Family in America"  By Chaim I. Waxman
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