Elisheva Carlebach
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Elisheva Carlebach is a professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City specializing in Jewish studies and has written widely on subjects relating to classical Judaism and its rabbinic personalities, such as Moses Hagiz. She is also a rebbetzin ("rabbi's wife"), married to Rabbi Mordechai Jofen the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Novardok yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York City. Dr. Carlebach obtained her PhD at Columbia University.
Dr. Carlebach's family was one of the most famous rabbinical families in Germany before the Holocaust. Her granfather was Rabbi Joseph Carlebach the last chief rabbi of Hamburg, and her father is Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who served as the mashgiach ruchani at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and author of the commentary on the Humash Maskil Lishlomo.
[edit] External links
- Backround and list of publications
- Biographical and publications information
- Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversy (columbia.edu)
- Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 (yale.edu)
- Introduction to The Letters of Bella Perlhefter (Wesleyan University)
[edit] See also
- Carlebach (disambiguation)
 |
This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Judaism is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
