Dr. Eyal Levinson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the  Beyond the Elite project. Dr. Levinson studies youth, men, fatherhood, and masculinities in medieval Ashkenaz. His dissertation (Gender Studies Program, Bar Ilan University, 2018) is entitled "Youth and Masculinities in Medieval Ashkenaz." Eyal is the author of Who Grow their Forelocks and Wear Knightly Clothes: Young Jewish Men in Medieval Ashkenaz: between Rabbinic and Knightly Masculinities, Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry 21 (2019): 14-46 and "Male Friendship in Medieval Ashkenaz," in Friendship in Jewish Culture, History, and Religion, ed. by Lawrence Fine (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2021).