Shlomo Carlebach

Shlomo Carlebach ( Hebrew שלמה קרליבך, called by his followers Reb Shlomo and Rabbi Shlomo ; * January 14, 1925 in Berlin ; † October 20, 1994 ) was a German-American Orthodox rabbi who was best known as a composer and singer of religious folk rock .

Life

Shlomo Carlebach comes from an important German rabbi family. His grandparents Salomon Carlebach and Esther Carlebach founded a rabbi dynasty in Lübeck with their twelve children and their descendants, which is represented in Germany, Great Britain, Israel and the USA.

Shlomo Carlebach first grew up in Berlin, where his father Dr. Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach (1889–1967) held a rabbinical position in the Passauer Strasse synagogue , in the oldest and most respected synagogue association in West Berlin. His mother Pauline (also: Paula), geb. Cohn, came from Basel . On November 16, 1930, as a result of a replacement, his father was elected chief rabbi of the third largest Jewish community in Austria at the time by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Baden near Vienna . The family moved to Baden, where Hartwig Carlebach was appointed to his post on August 9, 1931. In December 1937, Shlomo and his brother were still celebrating their Bar Mitzwah in the Baden synagogue .

Grave in the Har Hamenouhot cemetery in Jerusalem

After the annexation of Austria , the family fled Baden on July 14, 1938 and finally came to New York City in 1939 via Lithuania .

There Hartwig Carlebach found employment in a synagogue on West 79th Street and founded the Carlebach Shul in 1940 at the same location , where Shlomo and his twin brother Eli Chaim also learned and worked. In addition, Shlomo studied at various yeshivot in New York and the surrounding area.

Shlomo has released more than 25 albums and made a name for himself as a singer and composer of Israeli, Hasidic and American folk songs in the 1960s. He went on numerous tours in the UK and the US and made several records. In 1963 he played alongside Bob Dylan and Joan Baez at a festival in San Francisco. He headed the Carlebach School from 1967 to 1980 after the death of his father.

It was only after Shlomo Carlebach's death that allegations were raised that he had sexually approached women several times and sexually molested them.

Shlomo's daughter Neshama Carlebach is like her father a musician and text writer and works in the style of her father.

Works

Shlomo's Stories , 1996, ISBN 1-56821-960-1
Shlomo's Stories: Selected Tales , 1997, ISBN 1-56821-215-1
Carlebach Haggadah: Seder Night with Reb Shlomo , 2001, ISBN 965-7108-31-4

literature

Nathan Ophir: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Life, Mission, and Legacy . Urim, Jerusalem 2014

Web links

Commons : Shlomo Carlebach (musician) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Carlebach Shul ^
Interview (audio recording) with Shlomo Carlebach in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

↑ Congregation Chronicle. (…) Berlin. A few months ago (…) ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 36/1931, September 4, 1931, Vienna 1931, ZDB -ID 2176231-4 , p. 7, bottom left. @1@ 2

^ Association for the Enlightenment of Jewish History in Baden: From then to now. (...) End of the KuK monarchy . In: jewishhistorybaden.com , accessed April 11, 2013.

↑ From week to week. Rabbi election in Baden near Vienna ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 48/1930, November 28, 1930, Vienna 1930, ZDB-ID 2176231-4, p. 7, center right. @1@ 2

↑ Inauguration of the Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach. In: Badener Zeitung , No. 64/1931 (Volume II), August 12, 1931, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .

↑ ^a ^b Thomas Eliser Schärf: House of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: juedischegemeinde.at , 2003, accessed on April 11, 2013. @1@ 2

^ Vicki Polin: Regarding the case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach ; on The Awareness Center of the Jewish Coalition Against Abuse / Assault (JCASA)

Remarks

↑ Initially living at Weilburgstrasse 12 (mansion demolished; see also: Max Herzig ), the villa (dating back to 1867) at Helenenstrasse 6 was moved into in 1934. - See: Thomas Eliser Schärf: House of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach ( memento from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: juedischegemeinde.at , 2003, accessed on April 11, 2013. (The heading Helenenstraße 4 refers to the orientation number valid at the time).

personal data
SURNAME	Carlebach, Shlomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karlibach, Schlomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American rabbi and singer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1994

[1] Congregation Chronicle. (…) Berlin. A few months ago (…) ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 36/1931, September 4, 1931, Vienna 1931, ZDB -ID 2176231-4 , p. 7, bottom left. @1@ 2

[jhb_time-2] Association for the Enlightenment of Jewish History in Baden: From then to now. (...) End of the KuK monarchy . In: jewishhistorybaden.com , accessed April 11, 2013.

[3] From week to week. Rabbi election in Baden near Vienna ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 48/1930, November 28, 1930, Vienna 1930, ZDB-ID 2176231-4, p. 7, center right. @1@ 2

[5] Inauguration of the Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach. In: Badener Zeitung , No. 64/1931 (Volume II), August 12, 1931, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.

[TES_Rundgang-6] Thomas Eliser Schärf: House of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: juedischegemeinde.at , 2003, accessed on April 11, 2013. @1@ 2

[7] Vicki Polin: Regarding the case of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach ; on The Awareness Center of the Jewish Coalition Against Abuse / Assault (JCASA)

[4] Initially living at Weilburgstrasse 12 (mansion demolished; see also: Max Herzig ), the villa (dating back to 1867) at Helenenstrasse 6 was moved into in 1934. - See: Thomas Eliser Schärf: House of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach ( memento from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: juedischegemeinde.at , 2003, accessed on April 11, 2013. (The heading Helenenstraße 4 refers to the orientation number valid at the time).