Reiner, Avraham (Rami)   Phone: 02- 9931440 Born: 1960, Israel Ph.D.: 2002, Hebrew University Thesis: "Rabbenu Tam and his Contemporaries: Relationships, Influences and Methods of Interpretation of the Talmud" Research Interests History of halakhah; Medieval cultural history of French and German Jewry Publications Book 1. Wuerzburg Tombstones, Text and Introductions, In collaboration with: E. Haverkamp; K. Mueller; S. Schwarzfuchs, (will apear in 2006 by: Freunden Fraenkischer Geschichte, Wuerzburg). Articles 1. "Exegesis and Halacha – A renewed study of the polemic between Rabbenu Tam and Rabbenu Meshulam", Annual of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law 21 (2000). 2. "The Attitude Towards Bat-Mitzvah Ceremonies – A comparative Study of Contemporary Responsa", Netuim 10 (2003), pp. 55-77. 3. "From Rabbenu Tam to R. Isaac of Vienna: The Hegmony Of the French Talmudic School in The Twelfth Century, in: Christoph Cluse (ed.), The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (10th-15th centuries): Proceedings of The International Symposium at Speyer 20-25 October 2002, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepoles, 2004).