RT Book
T1 Building communities: a history of the eruv in America
T2 North American Jewish studies
A1 Mintz, Adam
LA English
PP Brighton
PB Academic Studies Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1819254380
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BM685
SN 979-8-88719-082-2
SN 979-8-88719-083-9
K1 Eruv : History
K1 Orthodox Judaism : United States