Medieval History and Literature

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought.

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society.

Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.

Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.

Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "