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Making the Northwest London Eruv, 1988-2003: The Construction, Representation and Experience of a Sabbath Space.
Author(s): Cousineau, Jennifer
Date: 2006
Topics: Jewish Neighbourhoods, Cities and Suburbs, Main Topic: Other, Shabbat, Jewish Space, Eruv
Rabbinic Urbanism in London: Rituals and the Material Culture of the Sabbath
Author(s): Cousineau, Jennifer
Date: 2005
Topics: Jewish Neighbourhoods, Cities and Suburbs, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Space, Orthodox Judaism, Ethnography, Shabbat, Eruv
Abstract: This article offers an ethnographic and material culture analysis of a spatial phenomenon that I call "rabbinic urbanism," using the planning and construction of the London eruv as an example. My investigation focuses on a late-twentieth- century form of the eruv, through which I hope to contribute to an enlarged understanding of the ways in which Jews locate themselves in urban space. The type of rabbinic urbanism I observed in London and will elaborate below was characterized by ritualized uses and practices of space, legal designations, and sanctification of the mundane through a host of communal gestures and debates.