Elisheva Carlebach

Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies

Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society
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ec607@columbia.edu

Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, specializes in the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the Jews in Early Modern Europe. Areas of particular interest include the intersection of Jewish and Christian culture and its effect on notions of tolerance, religious dissent, conversion, messianism, and communal governance. Her books include The Pursuit of Heresy (1990), awarded the National Jewish Book Award; Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Early Modern Germany (2000);  Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe (2011), winner of the Association for Jewish Studies Schnitzer Prize; and Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880, Vol. 6 in the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (2019). She has twice held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was a Fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, Tikvah Fellow at NYU Law School, and Fellow at the Katz Center, University of Penn. She served as Editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and serves on the Board of the Center for Jewish History. She has served as President of the American Academy for Jewish Research and is currently Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia. In 2017 she was awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award.