Elisheva Baumgarten
Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and editor of Beyond the Elite, specializing in the social and religious worlds of ordinary medieval Ashkenazic Jews and leader of the collaborative research project behind the book.
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Mar 28, 2026 • 53min
Elisheva Baumgarten, "Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Elisheva Baumgarten, Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew University, led a collaborative project reconstructing everyday medieval Ashkenazic life. She discusses the book's four lenses: people, spaces, objects, and rituals. Topics include rivers and inns, pawnbroking, local conflicts, hybrid religious practices, and how ordinary lives reveal broader social integration and rupture in medieval northern Europe.
