Kanarfogel, Ephraim 1955-

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KANARFOGEL, Ephraim 1955-

PERSONAL:

Born November 19, 1955, in New York, NY; married; children. Education: Yeshiva University, Ph.D., 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, Yeshiva University, 245 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016. E-mail—kanarfog@ymail.yu.edu.

CAREER:

Yeshiva University, New York, NY, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History, 1981—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

National Jewish Book Award, 1993, for Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages.

WRITINGS:

Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1992.

"Peering through the Lattices": Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Intellectual History of Medieval Ashkenazic Jewry, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), expected c. 2004.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, November, 1992, Z. Garber, review of Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages, p. 486.

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