Elisheva Carlebach
Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University and director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, specializing in early modern European Jewish history, communal life, and print culture.
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Feb 10, 2026 • 1h 36min
Elisheva Carlebach & Debra Kaplan: The Unknown History of Women in Jewish Life [American Yeshiva World 1/3]
Elisheva Carlebach, a Columbia professor of early modern Jewish life and print culture, and Debra Kaplan, a Bar-Ilan social historian of Jewish women, dig into archival surprises about women’s roles. They discuss sources that reveal literacy, synagogue attendance, women’s officials and burial societies. The conversation highlights how communal structures shaped and recorded women’s public and religious lives.
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Dec 7, 2025 • 58min
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe (with Prof. Elisheva Carlebach & Prof. Debra Kaplan)
Meet Debra Kaplan, a historian of German Jewry, and Elisheva Carlebach, a Columbia professor of Jewish history. They trace how records, print, and objects reveal women's lives in 1500–1800 Europe. Short stories and microbiographies illuminate synagogue attendance, economic work, communal roles like mikveh and charity, and the archives that let scholars recover ordinary and remarkable women.
