In and out, between and beyond
Subtitle: Jewish daily life in medieval Europe
By: editors Elisheva Baumgarten and Ido Noy
Contributors: Noy, Ido, editor; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
Publisher: Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9789655995039
Subjects: Jewish art; Catalogs; Jewish art and symbolism; Judaism; History; Art juif; Catalogues; Judaïsme; Histoire; Medieval; Medieval and early modern period
Description: This book, produced for the exhibition In and Out, Between and Beyond, presents the scholarly work of a group of historians who study the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in dialogue with the work of contemporary Israeli artists. This is one of the culminating projects of the European Research Council-funded research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Since the inception of the project (Fall 2016), the team has worked to construct a history which includes those who were not part of the learned elite as well as those who were learned, about whom we know more. The research team trained its sights on everyday moments, investigating daily routines and the ways medieval Jews understood their lives amidst their host cultures. At the heart of this work is the complexity of the circumstances in which medieval Jews lived: the integration of Ashkenazic Jews within their Christian surroundings, alongside their maintenance of a distinct religious identity. To complement the medieval study underlying this endeavor, the exhibit's curator, Dr. Ido Noy, orchestrated a fruitful exchange between the research team and seven Israeli artists, who then produced contemporary expressions of the historic ideas under discussion. This book, mirroring the structure of the exhibit, is comprised of sixteen articles. Each one is built around a primary source from a particular literary genre. The colorful catalogue at the end of the volume documents the objects created especially for the exhibition that was displayed physically at the gallery on the Mount Scopus campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and can still be viewed virtually -- Cover page 4.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Jewish daily life in medieval Europe encounters Israeli art  -- Elisheva Baumgarten; title: In and out, between and beyond  -- Ido Noy; title: Jews sailing on the rivers  -- Tzafrir Barzilay; title: Treasure hunt ; title: Ido Noy --; title: Jewish ritual baths  -- Neta Bodner; title: And there was a wedding in town  -- Eyal Levinson; title: Jews and urban water systems in Northern Europe  -- Tzafrir Barzilay; title: Inclusion and exclusion  -- Nureet Dermer; title: Open and shut case  -- Aviya Doron; title: The Jewry oath (Judeneid)  -- Andreas Lehnertz; title: Backing the wrong horse?  -- Aviya Doron; title: Timely negotiations  -- Elisheva Baumgarten; title: The Queen and the Jews  -- Hannah Teddy Schachter; title: The Jew's hat (Judenhat)  -- Andreas Lehnertz; title: Match-making magic among medieval French Jews  -- Amit Shafran; title: The mazal tov ring and the ketubbah  -- Ido Noy; title: Medieval song in a Jewish key  -- Albert Evan Kohn; title: The lives of the dead in medieval Ashenaz  -- Miri Fenton; title: Participating historians --; title: Participating artists --; title: Catalogue --; title: The Max and Iris Stern Gallery..