Elisheva Carlebach Jofen

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

Career

Carlebach is the Salo Baron Professor of Jewish history at Columbia University. She was formerly History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. She 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 (Yoffen) 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 famous 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 served as the mashgiach ruchani at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and author of the commentary on the Humash Maskil Lishlomo.

Publications

Books

• The Pursuit of Heresy :Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, (Columbia University Press, 1990; 1994) ISBN 0-231-07191-4
• Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany, 1500-1750 Yale University Press, 2001 ISBN 0300084102, Finalist for the 2001-02 National Jewish Book Award
  • Review, Deborah Hertz, American Historical Review "Future scholars will stand on the shoulders of Carlebach’s massive research" [1]
  • Review, Rabbi Dr. Charles H. Middleburgh, The Expository Times "meticulously researched ...compelling and fascinating,"
  • Review, Donald Sullivan, History: Reviews of New Books
  • Review, Scott Hendrix, Journal of American Studies
  • Review, Dean Phillip Bell, Sixteenth Century Journal
  • Stephen D. Benin, Religious Studies Review

• Co-editor, History and Memory: Jewish Perspectives, Brandeis/University Press of New England, 1998.

Articles

• "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.
• "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.
• "Introduction to The Letters of Bella Perlhefter" Early Modern Workshop: Jewish History Resources. Wesleyan University Press, Vol. 1, Early Modern Jeweries, 2004

External links

• Background 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)

See also

• Carlebach (disambiguation)