Abstract

AbstractAssistant Professor at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Piper Bernbaum finds magic in ‘legal fictions’, and especially the Jewish eruv. While many legal fictions offer privileges to individuals and create spatial systems of power, the eruv is not exclusive; it includes the existing urban fabric of the city and all its people, and on the Sabbath emancipates the orthodox community to provide an extended domain of domestic space.

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