Elisheva Baumgarten

Elisheva Baumgarten is a lecturer in the department of Jewish History and the Gender Studies program at Bar Ilan University. She received her Ph.D. in medieval Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her academic interests include medieval history, social history and anthropology and applications of gender methodology to medieval studies. Her research centers on Germany and Northern France in the High Middle Ages. She is the author of Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (2004) and articles that focus on medieval Ashkenaz.