Shared Words: Jews, Christians and Prayer in Medieval Europe
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Professor Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University)
- Series
- The David Patterson Lectures
- Location
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
This talk explores prayers recited by medieval Jews in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages that parallel or adapt Christian models. It considers how or if these prayers were reshaped by Jews and examines what they reveal about the values, shared and contested, by Jews and Christians in medieval Europe. Elisheva Baumgarten is the Yitzchak Becker Professor for Jewish Studies and teaches in the departments of Jewish History and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also currently serves as the dean of the Faculty of Humanities. Baumgarten is a social historian and her work focuses on the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz (roughly modern-day Germany, northern France, and England). She currently runs the research project Contending with Crises: The Jews in XIVth Century Europe (2022-2027). Her most recent publication is Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe (Cornell University Press, 2026), one of the fruits of her ERC funded project Beyond the Elite (2016-2022).
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