University of Wisconsin–Madison Pyle Center Room 213 702 Langdon Street Madison, WI 53706
Chair: Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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.Sunny Yudkoff joined the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic+ Studies in the fall of 2016. Her first book, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing, was published with Stanford University Press (2019). Her work has appeared in Prooftexts, Jewish Social Studies, Comparative Literature, Literature and Medicine, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her second monograph, On Yiddish Joy.
