Elisheva Carlebach, “Gender and the Jewish Archive 02, Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women”
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 15:30 CDT
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pyle Center
Room 213
702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706
Chaired by Sunny Yudkoff
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for European Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for German and European Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison Hillel
Elisheva Carlebach is Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, and Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy (National Jewish Book Award); Divided Souls: Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern German Lands; Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe (AJS Schnitzer Prize) and Confronting Modernity: 1750-1880, volume 6 in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. She has held fellowships at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, the Katz Center at University of Pennsylvania, and the Tikvah Center at NYU Law School. She served as Editor of the AJS Review and as President of the American Academy for Jewish Research. In 2017 she was awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award of Columbia University.