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

Career

Carlebach obtained her bachelor's degree from

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. In 1986 she completed her

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in Jewish History at

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. Subsequently, she was a professor of Jewish History at

Queens College Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Flushing, Queens. It has a student body representing more than 170 ...

and the

Graduate Center, CUNY The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the C ...

, in

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. Since 2008 she has been the

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Professor of

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and

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at Columbia University. Carlebach is married to Rabbi Mordechai Jofen, the

rosh yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primar ...

("dean") of the Novardok yeshiva Beis Yosef in

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, 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 Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

before

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. Her grandfather was Rabbi

Joseph Carlebach Joseph Hirsch (Tzvi) Carlebach (January 30, 1883, Lübeck, German Empire – March 26, 1942, Biķerniecki forest, near Riga, Latvia) was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist (''Naturwissenschaftler''). Early life a ...

, the last

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, and her father is Rabbi

Shlomo Carlebach Shlomo Carlebach ( he, שלמה קרליבך; 14 January 1925 – 20 October 1994), known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a rabbi, religious teacher, spiritual leader, composer, and singer dubbed "the singing rabbi" during his lifetime. ...

who served as the

mashgiach ruchani A mashgiach ruchani ( he, משגיח רוחני; pl., ''mashgichim ruchani'im'') or mashgicha ruchani – sometimes mashgiach/mashgicha for short – is a spiritual supervisor or guide. He or she is usually a rabbi who has an official position wit ...

at the

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or ''Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin'' ( he, יְשִׁיבַת רַבֵּינוּ חַיִּים בֶּרלִין) is an American Haredi Lithuanian-type boys' and men's yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York. Chaim Berlin consis ...

and author of the commentary on the

Humash ''Chumash'' (also Ḥumash; he, חומש, or or Yiddish: ; plural Ḥumashim) is a Torah in printed and book bound form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Sefer Torah, which is a scroll. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, (). A more f ...

''Maskil Lishlomo''.

Publications

Books

*''Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe,'' (Belknap Press, 2011) ISBN-10: 0674052544 *''The Pursuit of Heresy :Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, '' (Columbia University Press, 1990; 1994) *''Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750'' Yale University Press, 2001 . Finalist for the 2001-02 National Jewish Book Award *Co-editor,'' History and Memory: Jewish Perspectives,'' Brandeis/University Press of New England, 1998.

Articles

*"Redemption and Persecution in the Eyes of R. Moses Hayim Luzzatto and his Circle", ''Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research,'' 54 (1987), 1-29. *"Converts and their Narratives in Early Modern Germany", ''Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook'', 1995 *"Rabbinic Circles on Messianic Pathways in the Post- Expulsion Era", ''Judaism: A Quarterly Journal, Special Symposium issue on the impact of the Spanish Expulsion,'' 41 (1992), pp. 208–216. *"Two Amens that Delayed the Redemption: Jewish Messianism and Popular Spirituality in the Post-Sabbatian Century", ''Jewish Quarterly Review,'' 82 (1992): 241-261. *"Sabbatianism and the Jewish-Christian Polemic", ''Proceedingsof the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, Vol. II: Jewish Thought and Literature'' (Jerusalem, 1990): 1-7.

Theses

Awards

* 1991:

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(disambiguation)

References

External links

Faculty page
Department of History, Columbia University, with link to publications available online

Jewish Studies Program, Queens College, CUNY, circa 2001
Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversy
Columbia University Press (archived from th
original
on April 27, 2005)
Introduction to The Letters of Bella Perlhefter
Workshop at Wesleyan University, 2004 (archived from th
original
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