This little piece, which is from the Jewish Chronicle via the JTA newswire, states that a man in Warsaw tried to divorce his wife on grounds that she did not dress tznius. She wore a sheitel, but it was cut in a 'boyish bob.' And her sleeves were too short. No dice, ruled the rabbi.
And in the tarte de-sasrei department, here is another JTA piece from 1924, recounting how an antisemitic French newspaper declared that the new fashion of the Flapper's bob is a Jewish conspiracy modeled on the sheitel and that head-shaving for gentile women was no doubt soon in store. I guess the aforementioned rav agreed with the Libre Parole.
I'm surprised that La Libre Parole was still in business then. It was best known as the major anti-Dreyfusard mouthpiece at the turn of the century. But Wikipedia says that the paper in fact folded in June 1924 -- maybe this shaitel story helped kill it off.
ReplyDeleteMFM, Are you planning on doing a review of R' Elie Munk's translation of Shadal's Torah commentary? (http://www.amazon.com/Shadal-Torah-Commentary-Samuel-Luzzatto/dp/9655240673/)
ReplyDeleteYeah, if the publisher or someone else want to send me one. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds a lot like contemporary right-wing French (and American) anti-Muslim hysteria about headscarves as the opening wedge to the imposition of Sharia law. "The more things change..."
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many Jewish Women shaved there heads in Fracne at that time...
ReplyDeleteThis is great. It's a shame the exact length of the sleeves are omitted. How many marriages could have benefited from that little bit of information?
ReplyDeleteI second Abe's question. Come to think of it, I'm sure the French could pull off shaving better than anyone else.
We don't pasken like that.
DeleteI thought the common holding is that even if she burns the soup its grounds for divorce?
ReplyDelete[Nice vort once heard: Can something so trivial really be grounds for divorce? Rather, it's a siman. If someone is so demanding that a stupid thing like burning soup makes him want to divorce, then the marriage is already doomed.]