It's a thin line
Subtitle: eruv from Talmudic to modern culture
By: edited by Adam Mintz
Publisher: The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; Yeshiva University Museum
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781602802766
Subjects: Eruv; History; Exhibitions; Orthodox Judaism
Description: "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.
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-187).
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Eruv and modern American culture : Expandinf eruv : urban typologies and the making of Jewish space / Isaac Cohen, Isaac Hametz and Rachel Vassar.