An excerpt from the work of Eitam Henkin, a brilliant doctoral student who was murdered by terrorists in front of his four young children

The great German Talmudist and poet was one of the shining lights of 13th-century Ashkenaz before he was kidnapped and held for an exorbitant ransom that he famously directed his community not to pay. Did they disobey him after his death?

David Assaf, the Chair of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, remembers his student: ‘I was deeply fond of him and respected him’