Elisheva carlebach biography sampler

Elisheva Carlebach Jofen is an American scholar of early modern Jewish history.

Elisheva carlebach biography sampler

Career

Carlebach obtained her bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College. In 1986 she completed her PhD in Jewish History at Columbia University.^[1] Subsequently, she was a professor of Jewish History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City.^[1] Since 2008 she has been the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish history, culture and society at Columbia University.^[2][3]

Carlebach is married to Rabbi Mordechai Jofen, the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Novardok yeshiva Beis Yosef in Brooklyn, New York City.

She uses her maiden name professionally and her married name in her personal life.

Carlebach's family was one of the preeminent rabbinical families in Germany before the Holocaust. Her grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Carlebach, the last chief rabbi of Hamburg, and her father is Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who serv