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Talmudic Territory? Space, Law, and Modernist Discourse
Author(s): Cooper, Davina
Date: 1996
Topics: Eruv, Law, Conflict, Main Topic: Other
Jews and other uncertainties: race, faith and English law
Author(s): Cooper, Davina; Herman, Didi
Date: 1999
Topics: Law, Race, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This paper is intended to contribute to an understanding of how Jews and Judaism have been constructed in English case law. Using an analysis of law as ‘racialised’, the paper observes not just ‘the Jews’ of English law, but also the complex production of ‘Englishness’ (and English law) itself: The specific focus of the paper is upon the law of trusts; in particular, legal judgments adjudicating testamentary dispositions where the Jewish settlor has insisted upon progeny ‘marrying in’ in order to inherit. Jewishness is constructed as both ‘faith’ and ‘race’, and the paper considers these categories and their interaction. While the judges tend to find the wills in question uncertain, it is argued that it is in fact ‘Jews’ and ‘Judaism’ with which the courts are unable to come to terms.
Boundary Harms: From Community Protection to a Politics of Value, the Case of the Jewish Eruv
Author(s): Cooper, Davina
Editor(s): Gordon, Hughes; McLaughlin, Eugene; Muncie, John
Date: 2001
Topics: Eruv, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other
Promoting injury or freedom: radical pluralism and orthodox Jewish symbolism
Author(s): Cooper, Davina
Date: 2000
Topics: Orthodox Judaism, Eruv, Pluralism, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This article provides an interrogation of radical pluralism as an analytical and normative framework through the prism of the eruv. The eruv is a symbolic perimeter structure which, by privatizing public space, enables orthodox Jews to carry on the Sabbath beyond their homes. The article focuses on the controversial, highly contested attempt to establish an eruv in North London in the 1990s. While radical pluralism's response to the eruv constitutes a blend of neo-Marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, and communitarianism, the article critically focuses on the particular influence of liberal individualism on radical pluralism's understanding of privacy, freedom and harm.