TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mintz,Adam
TI  - Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America 
T2  - North American Jewish Studies
SN  - 9798887190846
AV  - BM685 .M528 2023
U1  - 296.8/320973 23/eng/20221013
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Eruv
KW  - History
KW  - Orthodox Judaism
KW  - United States
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Jewish History
KW  - Halakhah
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - St. Louis Eruv
KW  - Toronto Eruv
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. History of the Eruv --; 2. The St. Louis Eruv --; 3. The East Side of Manhattan Eruv --; 4. The Toronto Eruv --; 5. The Manhattan Eruv, 1949–1962 --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and examines the evolution of American Orthodox communities from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The earliest debates reflect a community with low religious observance and weak ties to local government that relied on European rabbis for authority. By the mid-twentieth century, these rabbinic disputes reveal an established, religiously observant community forming its own traditions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887190846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887190846
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887190846/original
ER  -