Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten

Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Prof. Yitzchak Becker Chair in Jewish Studies and teaches in the Departments of Jewish History and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the social history of the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz. She currently directs an ERC funded research project Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe and leads a team of approx 10 scholars, postdoctoral fellows, PhD candidates and MA students. Her publications include Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton, 2004); Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia, 2014) and many edited volumes and articles in academic journals. This is the seventh year she is co-directing the Summer School.