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New Exhibition about Medieval Jewish Daily Life at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and online

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On June 2 2021, the European Research Council-Funded research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe, led by Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, celebrated the opening of its exhibition “In and Out, Between and Beyond: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe.” Focusing on the group’s research about the ways medieval Jews understood their lives amidst their Christian surroundings, the exhibition is comprised of sixteen units, at the heart of each of which stands a primary source from a particular literary genre.

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