Eli­she­va Baum­garten holds the Pro­fes­sor Yitzchak Beck­er Chair for Jew­ish Stud­ies, Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem. She is author of Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Obser­vance and edi­tor, with Ruth Mazo Kar­ras and Kate­lyn Mess­er, of Entan­gled His­to­ries: Knowl­edge, Author­i­ty, and Jew­ish Cul­ture in the Thir­teenth Cen­tu­ry, both pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Press.