From Germany to Northern France and Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centres
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter cites Simcha Emanuel, who has referred to a lacuna in the rabbinic leadership of German Jewry during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. It recounts how rabbinic figures did not flourish in Germany for nearly a generation following the passing of several distinguished Tosafists and halakhic authorities who had been active throughout the first two decades of that century of Cologne. It also probes the crisis of leadership that lasted until Meir ben Barukh of Rothenburg, which succeeded in re-establishing the highest levels of Torah scholarship and teaching in Germany during the second half of the thirteenth century. The chapter analyses why the cohort of leading rabbinic scholars did not cultivate any students who could serve as their successors in Germany. It talks about Ya'akov Sussman, who showed that the connections between the Tosafist study halls in northern France and in Germany.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it