@book {3223661, title = {NEW Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe}, year = {2026}, pages = {360}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, organization = {Cornell University Press}, edition = {2026}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Beyond the Elite\ focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbors, while at the same time creating and affirming their own religious, social, and cultural identities. This volume makes possible a multifaceted understanding of different perspectives on Jewish life, demonstrating the extent to which medieval Jews were simultaneously integral to majority-Christian communities and also strangers within them.

Based on scholarship conducted during a multiyear, team-conducted research project,\ Beyond the Elite\ addresses topics such as orphanhood, social exclusion, travel by river, local power struggles, architectural styles, pawnbroking, wedding customs, and religious rituals. More broadly, in detailing the rhythms of daily life during times of relative calm for Jewish communities, it becomes clear that anti-Jewish persecution and violence from the late thirteenth century was both manifested within and a rupture of existing social orders.

}, url = {https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785382/beyond-the-elite/$\#$bookTabs=4}, author = {Barzilay, Tzafrir and Baumgarten, Elisheva and Bodner, Neta and Dermer, Nureet and Doron, Aviya and Kohn, Albert Evan and Fenton, Miri and Funke, Annika and Lehmann, Ariella and Lehnertz, Andreas and Levinson, Eyal and Noy, Ido and Rochman, Erez and Rubin, Miri and Schachter, Hannah Teddy and Shafran, Amit} } @article {3188076, title = {Review. John Tolan, England\’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)}, journal = {Journal of Social History}, year = {2024}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad089}, author = {Hannah Teddy Schachter} } @inbook {3188089, title = {Les juifs de Toulouse sont-ils devenus des h\ér\étiques?}, booktitle = {Cathares. Toulouse dans la croisade, eds. Laure Barthet \& Laurent Mac{\'e}}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Toulouse, Mus{\'e}e Saint-Raymond Toulouse / Couvent des Jacobins Toulouse / In Fine {\'e}ditions d{\textquoteright}art}, organization = {Toulouse, Mus{\'e}e Saint-Raymond Toulouse / Couvent des Jacobins Toulouse / In Fine {\'e}ditions d{\textquoteright}art}, address = {Toulouse}, url = {https://infine-editions.fr/publications/cathares/}, author = {Morgane Fortin}, editor = {Laure Barthet \& Laurent Mac{\'e}} } @article {3188078, title = {From the Merry to the Macabre: Song and Dance in the Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter, 1100\–1450}, journal = {Viator}, volume = {54}, year = {2023}, pages = {233{\textendash}75}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.137942}, author = {Hannah Teddy Schachter and Albert Kohn} } @article {3188083, title = {The Jews\’ Hat in Medieval Ashkenaz: Formal Attire for Everyday Men?}, journal = {IMAGES{\textemdash}A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture}, volume = {16}, year = {2023}, pages = {52-70}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1163/18718000-12340173}, author = {Hannah Teddy Schachter and Andreas Lehnertz} } @article {3188094, title = {Between Rabbinic and Knightly Masculinities: Constructing Gendered Identities Among Jewish Young Men in Medieval Ashkenaz in \“Jewish Masculinities, 1200-1800\”}, journal = {Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Journal of the Fondazione CDEC}, volume = {24}, year = {2023}, pages = {26{\textendash}56}, url = {https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/between-rabbinic-and-knightly-masculinities-constructing-gendered-identities-among-jewish-young-men-in-medieval-ashkenaz/}, author = {Eyal Levinson}, editor = {Francesca Bregoli} }