Ephraim Kanarfogel
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Ephraim Kanarfogel is an important scholar of medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature. His specialty is the history of halakha. He studied with Jacob Katz, the founder of this scholarly field in the modern academic world.
Prof. Kanarfogel is the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University's s Stern College for Women. In addition, he fulfills certain administrative functions at Stern: he is chairman of the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies, and director of the Graduate Program for Women in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) at Yeshiva University. In addition, he teaches on the graduate level at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.
Virtually all of Dr. Kanarfogel's formal education has been at Yeshiva University. He received his BA from Yeshiva College, and his MA and PhD from Revel. Furthermore, he was ordained as a rabbi by RIETS, Yeshiva University's rabbinical school. Although he does not currently practice as a rabbi, he was the rabbi of the synagogue Beth Aaron, in Teaneck, New Jersey, for many years.
He began teaching at Stern College in 1979, and since 1984 he has been the head of the Jewish studies program at Stern, as well as continuing to teach. He written or edited five books and more than 50 articles and reviews.
Important writings by him include:
- Jewish education and society in the High Middle Ages. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1992. (A Hebrew translation of this book, by Ruti Bar-Ilan, was published by the Kibbutz Ha-Me'uchad Press in 2003.)
- Peering through the lattices : mystical, magical, and pietistic dimensions in the Tosafist period. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2000.
Prof. Kanarfogel resides in Teaneck, New Jersey.
In 2002, he became the first person to win YU's Samuel Belkin Literary Award twice.
