Brothers from Afar

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought. In Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe , Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges a long-held view that those who had apostatized and later returned to the Jewish community in northern medieval Europe were encouraged to resume their places without the need for special ceremony or act that verified their reversion. Kanarfogel's evidence suggests that from the late twelfth cen