Conversion to Judaism as Reflected in the Rabbinic Writings and Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz: Between Germany and Northern France,
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Book chapter
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.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/6076Citation
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
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