Participants 2016–2022 | Beyond The Elite

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten

Principle Investigator

Elisheva Baumgarten at Academia.edu

elisheva.baumgarten@mail.huji.ac.il

Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Professor Yitzchak Becker chair of Jewish Studies and is a professor in the History and Jewish history Departments at the Hebrew University. She is a social historian who studies the Jewish communities of medieval northern Europe.

Audrey Fingherman

Coordinator and Administrative Manager

audreyfi@savion.huji.ac.il

Dr. Ido Noy

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

ido.noy@mail.huji.ac.il

Ido Noy is an art historian and curator who specializes in Jewish art, with a particular interest in ritual and ceremonial objects. In his current research, he studies the way medieval Jewish history is exhibited in contemporary Germany.

Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

tzafrir.barzilay@mail.huji.ac.il

Tzafrir Barzilay at Academia.edu

Tzafrir Barzilay focuses on social, cultural and religious history in Europe during the 12th to 15th centuries.

Dr. Neta Bodner

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

neta.baryosef@gmail.com

Neta Bodner is an art historian whose research focuses on medieval religious architecture, examined in conjunction with ceremonies, religious experience, and symbolism. Her PhD examined representations of Jerusalem in Italian Christian religious architecture.

Dr. Nureet Dermer

PhD Candidate

nureet.dermer@gmail.com

Nureet Dermer at Academia.edu

Nureet Dermer's research investigates the socio-economic everyday relations between Northern French Jews and Christians, during the fourteenth century, between expulsions. She is currently a post-doctoral associate at Bar Ilan University.

Dr. Aviya Doron

PhD Candidate

aviyadoron@gmail.com

Aviya Doron explores risk and trust in Jewish-Christian economic interactions in the German Empire (1280–1420).

Dr. Miri Fenton

PhD Candidate

miri.fenton@mail.huji.ac.il

Miri Fenton's (PhD 2022) work compares and contrasts the everyday lives of Jews in the Crown of Aragon and Kehillot SHU"M (communities of Speyer, Worms, and Mainz), from 1100 to 1347.

Annika Funke

PhD Candidate at University of Trier

annika.funke@mail.huji.ac.il

Annika Funke worked on the communal reorganization of Jews in rural areas after their expulsion from most of the German imperial cities in the late middle ages.

Etelle Kalaora

MA Student

etelle.kalaora@mail.huji.ac.il

Etelle Kalaora at Academia.edu

Etelle Kalaora studied the status of Jewish and Christian widows within their communities, in Ashkenaz between the 12^th-14^th centuries.

Albert Evan Kohn

MA Student

albertevankohn@gmail.com

Albert Evan Kohn explores the diverse set of ideas, activities and people which animated domestic life in the cities of medieval France and Germany.

Ms. Ariella Lehmann

MA Student

ariellaleh@gmail.com

Ariella Lehmann at Academia.edu

Ariella Lehmann researches the preparations for Shabbat among medieval Ashkenazi Jews. In addition to her studies Ariella teaches Bible and history to a 7th grade class in the Leyada school. Ariella is currently a PhD candidate at the Contending with Crises research group.

Dr. Andreas Lehnertz

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

alehnertz@gmx.de

http://huji.academia.edu/AndreasLehnertz

Andreas Lehnertz studies Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish craftspeople, Jewish and Christians sealing practices, as well as Jewish oath-taking, in medieval Ashkenaz.

Dr. Eyal Levinson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

eyallevinson@gmail.com

Eyal Levinson at Academia.edu

Eyal Levinson researches ideals of masculinity in medieval Jewish culture in Ashkenaz and their social ramifications. The research interweaves Jewish-Ashkenazic medieval historiography with gender and masculinity studies.

Adi Namia-Cohen

MA Student

adisara.fertig@mail.huji.ac.il

Adi Namia-Cohen at Academia.edu

Adi Namia-Cohen investigated food as a central part of daily life, Jewish holidays throughout the year, and ceremonies at life cycle events. Alongside her research and studies, she worked as an archivist in the Central Zionist Archive.