Mountains suspended by a hair : Eruv, a symbolical act by which the legal fiction of community is established

In 1991 a group of orthodox Jews applied to the London Borough of Barnet for permission to erect small groups of structures resembling telephone poles, connected - at a height of about twenty feet - by fine nylon filament, at thirty nine locations in the borough. Overall, the number of such structur...

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Main Author: Ash, Robert Charles
Other Authors: Westwood, Sallie ; Jewson, Nick
Published: University of Leicester 2000
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417868