I am a research fellow and adjunct lecturer in medieval Jewish history and Jewish law at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich, and I am honored to join the ERC “Beyond the Elite” group for the month of April 2021. At LMU I am primarily engaged in a collaborative research project that examines rabbinic responsa from thirteenth and fourteenth century Germany alongside contemporaneous German and Latin archival materials, demonstrating the embeddedness of Jewish legal and social practice in its local environment. My personal research similarly focuses on the legal and social history of Jews in the medieval German empire. The book I am currently writing, based on the doctoral dissertation I completed at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2015, examines women’s encounters with law and justice in the Jewish courts of medieval Ashkenaz. Drawing primarily from the rabbinic responsa of the twelfth through mid-fourteenth centuries, as well as from other documentary and literary sources, it assesses the contexts in which Jewish women functioned as legal actors and the extent to which the prevailing legal and social norms allowed them to perform in this capacity. For my next book project, I have begun to take this research in new directions, examining the gap between rhetoric and practice in medieval rabbinic discussions of women’s economic and legal autonomy. By focusing on the development of increasingly restrictive legal trends and their manifestations in practice, I aim to reassess the financial agency of Jewish women in this era and its implications for understanding the shifting economic and social profile of the Jewish communities in medieval northern Europe more broadly.