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

Stoker, Valerie

doi:10.1086/381321

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“…In addition, a socio-demographic survey of the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities of Outremont in Montreal (mainly Belz and Satmar Hasidim) identified the problem of poverty and socio-economic jeopardy threatening the future of those communities (Shahar et al 1997). We have studies examining Canadian ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews as test cases for the limits and flexibility of Canadian multiculturalism, notably with regard to the dispute over the eruv in Montreal (Stoker 2003;van Praagh 1996). Other studies focusing on Orthodoxy in Canada have been undertaken with the works of Ira Robinson and Etan Diamond, as well as several studies that have broached distinct sub-topics (Diamond 2000;Levy 2004;Lightman and Shor 2002;Robinson 2007;Sepinwall 2002;Weiser 2007).…”

Section: Religion Culture and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Developments in the Social Scientific Study of Canadian Jews

Koffman

Weinefeld

2011

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This article presents an overview of the growth of the field of the social scientific study of Canadian Jewish life over the past quarter century, and assesses the recent research trends as they relate to the specific character of modern Canadian Jewish life. It takes stock of several social science domains, including the study of Canadian Jewish demography, research on socio-economics, women, family and sexuality studies, Canadian regionalism, immigration, religion and identity, Canadian Jewish political studies, studies of Canadian anti-Semitism, and the impacts of Holocaust and Israel-related research on the field. This essay offers several pointed critiques of the field and its current scholarly agenda, most notably, scholars' persistent and partly misplaced efforts to understand the Canadian Jewish experience as wholly distinct from its American counterpart.Keywords Canadian Jewish studies Á Social scientific research Á Comparison Á Multiculturalism Á Demography This article presents an overview of the social scientific study of Canadian Jewish life over the past quarter century. It seeks to do two things. First, it outlines the growth and landmarks in the field of research. And second, it assesses some of the content of this research, notably as it relates to the two key challenges of modern Canadian Jewish living, namely, the preoccupation with Jewish-identity retention at

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Section: Religion Culture and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Developments in the Social Scientific Study of Canadian Jews

Koffman

Weinefeld

2011

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“…It informs much of the literature concerning separation of church and state vs. accommodating an eruv. Researchers covering this question include Stoker (2003), who considers some of the issues raised in the Tenafly case. She contrasts the case of Tenafly, in which it was argued that "permanently affixing religious symbols to public property (in this case, utility poles)," violated the separation of church and state, with other cases that involved other issues.…”

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The Non-Territoriality of an Eruv: Ritual Bearings in Jewish Urban Life

Bechhofer

2017

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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This paper considers the definition and meaning of an eruv1 as “territoriality without sovereignty” in Jewish tradition (Fonrobert 2005). It begins by exploring the origin and development of the term eruv itself, as well as its applications in different urban settings. It distinguishes between, on the one hand, the “enclosure” of the eruv that is made up of various natural and artificial structures that define its perimeter and, on the other hand, the “ritual community” created by the symbolic collection of bread that is known as eruvei chatzeirot. It suggests that much of the controversy, including legal issues of separation of church and state, as well as emotional issues such as the charge of “ghetto-ization”, surrounding urban eruvin (plural of eruv) may be connected to the identification of the area demarcated by an eruv as a “territoriality”. It argues that the enclosure of an eruv is not in itself religious in nature but rather makes up a completely arbitrary and generic “space”, and that it is only through and on account of the eruvei chatzeirot that this space becomes meaningful as a purely symbolic “place” one day a week (on the Sabbath). In the course of this analysis, it considers the one “weekday” on which an eruv may be significant – the Jewish holiday of Purim – and how on that day it may be a tool by which the area defined as part of a given city may be extended.

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“…tended to view Outremont's public image in the same terms as its physical territory, that is, as a substantive, material, and therefore finite entity whose "use" and/or "occupancy" had to be carefully monitored and apportioned. Outremont eruv opposition therefore tended to presume that the proper management of religious and cultural diversity occurs through the privatization of difference by minority members in the interests of protecting a dominant cultural community that is uniquely entitled to mark Outremont's landscape and shape its public image 77 .…”

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« Maîtres chez eux ». La grève des internes de 1934 revisitée

Robinson¹

2016

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La grève des internes à l’Hôpital Notre-Dame en 1934, menée en réaction à la présence d’un médecin juif, le Dr Samuel Rabinovitch, est un des événements les plus iconiques dans l’histoire de l’antisémitisme au Québec. Cet article reprend les sources en archives et les commentaires des journaux de l’époque pour arriver à une meilleure compréhension des événements. De multiples points de vue sont examinés, ceux de la communauté juive, des « autorités » canadiennes-françaises (à l’hôpital, à l’Université de Montréal et au sein de l’Église catholique), de la population canadienne-française en général et du Canada anglophone.One of the most iconic events in the history of anti-Semitism in Quebec was the 1934 strike by interns at Notre-Dame Hospital. They were opposed to the presence of a Jewish physician, Dr. Samuel Rabinovitch. This article examines both archival sources and commentary in the contemporary press to arrive at a better understanding of the event from multiple perspectives, namely those of the Jewish community, French Canadian leaders (at the hospital, at the Université de Montréal, and within the Catholic Church), members of the wider French-Canadian community, and English-speaking Canadians

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

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

Recent Developments in the Social Scientific Study of Canadian Jews

Recent Developments in the Social Scientific Study of Canadian Jews

The Non-Territoriality of an Eruv: Ritual Bearings in Jewish Urban Life

« Maîtres chez eux ». La grève des internes de 1934 revisitée

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