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. Baumgarten is the author of three books Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004); Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and Biblical Women and Everyday Life in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). She is the author of many articles and has edited ten collected volumes, the most recent of which she edited with Tzafrir Barzilay and Eyal Levinson, Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350 (Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 2022).
From 2016-2022, Prof. Baumgarten directed the Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe research project funded by the European Research Council.