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It's a thin line : eruv from Talmudic to modern culture / edited by Adam Mintz.

Title
It's a thin line : eruv from Talmudic to modern culture / edited by Adam Mintz.
Publication
  • New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University ; Yeshiva University Museum, [2014].
  • Brooklyn, NY : Ktav Publishing House
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Mintz, Adam
  • Yeshiva University. Museum, issuing body.
Description
xix, 187 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm
Summary
"This volume represents the first collection of essays on the subject of eruv that combines the halakhic, historical, sociological and artistic aspects of this age-old rabbinic innovation" -- back cover.
Subject
  • Eruv
  • Eruv > History
  • Eruv > Exhibitions
  • Orthodox Judaism > United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition It's a thin line : the eruv and Jewish community in New York and beyond, presented by Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, New York, October 28, 2012 - October 13, 2013" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-187).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A curatorial tour : It's a thin line : the eruv and Jewish community in New york and beyond / Zachary Paul Levine ; Eruv and halakhah / Rabbi Hershel Schachter ; Eruv in history / Lawrence H. Schiffman ; Sabbathdrähte, Sabbathschnüre, and Judentore : the German century of the eruv / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert ; Eruv : a gateway into orthodoxy in Gotham in the 20th - 21st centuries -- Eruv and Jewish community : The eruv and the changing role of women / Blu Greenberg ; Sociological contexts and complications od eruv construction in American Jewish communities / Sylvia Barack Fishman ; The new Manhattan eruv / Yaakov Kermaier -- Eruv and modern American culture : Expandinf eruv : urban typologies and the making of Jewish space / Isaac Cohen, Isaac Hametz and Rachel Vassar.
ISBN
  • 9781602802766
  • 1602802769
OCLC
  • 876141385
  • SCSB-12618332
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library