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Title: Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France,
Authors: Kanarfogel, Ephraim
Maciejko, Paweł
Dunkelgrün, Theodor
Keywords: Jewish conversion
medieval Ashkenaz
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Citation: Kanarfogel, Ephraim. “Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France,” in Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present. Ed. Theodor Dunkelgrün and Paweł Maciejko.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020: 58-74, 290-298
Series/Report no.: Jewish culture and contexts;
Abstract: More than a half century ago, Jacob Katz briefly sketched the attitudes that the Tosafists of northern France and Germany— and other related rabbinic decisors— displayed toward converts to Judaism. In doing so, he identified several key Talmudic interpretations and halakhic constructs as the axes around which the rabbinic positions could be charted. At the same time, Ben Zion Wacholder published a study on conversion to Judaism in Tosafist literature. Rami Reiner has supplemented these earlier efforts by focusing on the status of converts in the rabbinic thought of medieval Ashkenaz.
Description: Book chapter
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/6076
ISBN: 9780812296754 0812296753
Appears in Collections:Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications

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