The Eruv as Metaphor for Jewish Homemaking in the Diaspora

Leora Auslander is the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization and Professor of Modern European Social History at the University of Chicago where she was the founding director of the Center for Gender Studies and is a member of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of the micro and the macro: citizenship law and domestic interiors; clothing and colonialism; European regulation and everyday religious practice. At the Katz Center, Auslander will work on metaphorical eruvs in Germany and France between the years 1880 and 1970.

Auslander received her PhD from Brown University and has taught at the University of Paris, Postdam University, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, among others.