Committee for Yiddish YouTube Channel : A Gallery of Missing Husbands
On this video Jewish Community newspapers from the Great Immigration period of American history hold ads in which abandoned wives seek their husbands. Men overwhelmed with the realities of recent immigrant life sometimes disappeared out of shame or because they could not live up to the responsibilities of marriage and children. Wives desperate for reunion sought them publicly in ads. Sometimes this effort would later be used to prove they had tried when divorce - and remarriage - was the only answer.
Again, Committee for Yiddish is an excellent YouTube channel and if you go to the link you'll find lots else that is educational.
