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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages

Ephraim Kanarfogel 		The Jews of northern France, Germany, and England, known collectively as Ashkenazic Jewry, have commanded the attention of scholars since the beginnings of modern Jewish historiography. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Franco-German Jewry produced an impressive corpus of Talmudic and halakhic compositions known collectively as Tosafot, that revolutionized the study of rabbinic literature.
Although the literary creativity of the Tosafists has been documented and analyzed, and the scope and policies of communal government in Ashkenaz have been fixed and compared, no sustained attempt has been made to integrate these crucial dimensions. Ephraim Kanarfogel's insightful study considers these relationships by examining the degree of communal involvement in the educational process, as well as the economic theories and communal structures that affected the process from the most elementary level to the production of the Tosafist corpus.		 1. The Structure of Elementary Education in Ashkenaz
2. Attitudes toward Childhood and the Educational Process
3. The Economics of Higher Education
4. The Relationship between the Academy and the Community
5. The Intellectual Milieu of the Tosafist Academies
6. Educational Theory and Practice in the Teachings of the German Pietists

Appendix A: The Origin and Orientation of Sefer Huqqei ha-Torah
Appendix B: The Ashkenazic Educational Initiation Ceremony
 
$31.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2164-X
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216 pages

1992 (2007)