eruv

(redirected from Eruvim)

er·uv

(âr′o͝ov, ĕr′-)

n. pl. er·u·vin (-o͝o-vĭn′) or er·u·vim (-o͝o-vĭm′) or er·uvs Judaism

A symbolic enclosure, marked by preexisting walls or by cord or wire strung on posts, nominally converting public space into private space and so permitting activities that would otherwise be prohibited on the Sabbath.

[Post-Biblical Hebrew 'êrûb, verbal noun of 'ērēb, to mix, mingle (from the fact that under Halachic law the separate households in the eruv are considered to be a single household, or mingled ), from Hebrew 'ēreb, mixture; see ʕrb in Semitic roots.]

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eruv

(ˈɛəruːv; ˈɛruːv)

(Judaism) Judaism an area, circumscribed by a symbolic line, within which certain activities forbidden to Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath are permitted

[C20: from Hebrew, literally: mixture, mixing]

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Often in urban areas, eruvim make use of existing landscape features to establish their boundaries, such as telephone poles.

"Planet of the Jews: Eruvim, Geography, and Jewish Identity in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union." Shofar 33, no.

A comedy of Eruvs: (re)locating Jewish identity in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Howard Jacobson's J

Vincent P, Warf B, 2002, "Eruvim: Talmudic places in a postmodern world" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 27 30-51

Converting houses into churches: the mobility, fission, and sacred networks of evangelical house churches in Sri Lanka

Drawing the Line: Hasidic Jews, Eruvim, and the Public Space of Outremont.

Yiddish and multiculturalism: a marriage made in heaven?

By examining the role that eruvim play in creating and contesting Jewishness in Chabon's 2007 postmodern detective novel, the paper suggests that Chabon crafts a world in which geographic space complicates, rather than simplifies, Jewish identity in diaspora and postmodernity.

Eruvim are geographic areas enclosed by wired boundaries that enable orthodox Jews to adhere to Talmudic restrictions on carrying items outside the home on the Sabbath.

In an inquiry into the role that eruvim play in identity formation in a postmodern world, geographers Peter Vincent and Barney Warf argue that eruvim are "constellations of subjectivity and power" (31) and that they represent an attempt to resist late twentieth-century cultural trends that threaten traditional cultures (30).

In short, eruvim signify multiple spaces occupying a single landscape.

Observers have shown that eruvim and other religious spaces like it essentially impose upon terrestrial space a "map of heaven" and that the space on which that map is located indicates a "connection between the supernatural and the earthly" (Valins 575).

Planet of the Jews: Eruvim, geography, and Jewish identity in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union

(20.) Eruvim have been installed in Outremont for several decades, but the city recently turned down the Hassidic community's application for an official eruv and banned this practice altogether.