Eyal Levinson is currently a researcher at Contending with Crisis: The Jews in XIVth Century Europe. In the past six years he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe. He researches youth, men, fatherhood and masculinities in medieval Ashkenaz. His book, Gender and Sexuality in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages (in Hebrew) was recently published by the Zalman Shazar Center and the Leo Baeck Jerusalem Institute. He also co-authored with Tzafrir Barzilay and Elisheva Baumgarten Jewish Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080‐1350: A Sourcebook, Western Michigan Press (forthcoming). Eyal is also the author of several articles among them: “Situated Fathering in Medieval Ashkenaz” published in JSQ “Male Friendship in Medieval Ashkenaz”, in Friendship in Jewish Culture, History, and Religion;“ Eternal love I conceive for you: Traveling Jewish Men and Covenantal Bromances”, in Mittelalter. Interdis- ziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte; and “Masculinities”, in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations.