Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America

Author:   Adam Mintz
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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9798887190822


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   02 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called aneruv. 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.

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Author:   Adam Mintz
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
ISBN:  

9798887190822


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   02 February 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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More than 200 American Jewish communities boast an eruv, permitting observant Jews to carry within its boundaries on the Sabbath. In this long-awaited volume, Adam Mintz explains the early history of the eruv in America, focusing on St. Louis, New York, and Toronto, including the fierce halachic disputes surrounding these projects and their relation to earlier eruv projects in Europe. Learned, readable and comprehensive, the book makes an important contribution to the history of American Orthodoxy and will be welcomed by all students of the eruv. - Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University


More than 200 American Jewish communities boast an eruv, permitting observant Jews to carry within its boundaries on the Sabbath. In this long-awaited volume, Adam Mintz explains the early history of the eruv in America, focusing on St. Louis, New York, and Toronto, including the fierce halachic disputes surrounding these projects and their relation to earlier eruv projects in Europe. Learned, readable and comprehensive, the book makes an important contribution to the history of American Orthodoxy and will be welcomed by all students of the eruv. -- Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University


More than 200 American Jewish communities boast an eruv, permitting observant Jews to carry within its boundaries on the Sabbath. In this long-awaited volume, Adam Mintz explains the early history of the eruv in America, focusing on St. Louis, New York, and Toronto, including the fierce halachic disputes surrounding these projects and their relation to earlier eruv projects in Europe. Learned, readable and comprehensive, the book makes an important contribution to the history of American Orthodoxy and will be welcomed by all students of the eruv. - Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University Adam Mintz's study on Eiruv in America provides a sweeping view of the history of this important aspect of Sabbath observance and a detailed study of early attempts to construct Eiruvin in North America. His work puts the resurgence of this aspect of the development of Orthodox life in the late 20th century into a completely new perspective. Mintz shows that study of the modern history of Jewish law can contribute greatly to understanding the development of orthodoxy in America. - Lawrence H. Schiffman, Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University


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Rabbi Adam Mintz is a Jewish communal leader with a passion for Jewish scholarship. Rabbi Mintz has served for 30 years as a community rabbi in Manhattan. He is currently the rabbi of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox synagogue he founded on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2004. He is also the Director of 929 English, an organization that promotes the daily study of Tanakh. In addition, Rabbi Mintz is a member of the Talmud faculty at Yeshivat Maharat and has taught as an Adjunct Professor at City College, New York. Rabbi Mintz received Rabbinical Ordination (Semicha) from Yeshiva University and a PhD in Jewish History from New York University. Rabbi Mintz lives in Manhattan with his wife Sharon. They have three children and two grandchildren.

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