2022 Mosse Lecture Series

“Gender and the Jewish Archive”

Elisheva Carlebach
Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society,
and Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University

Monday, November 7th –
“The Jewish Archives of Early Modern Europe” (chair: Sunny Yudkoff)
3:30-5:00PM
213 Pyle Center – Open the the public

Tuesday, November 8th
“Jewish Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women” (chair: Tony Michels)
3:30-5:00PM
213 Pyle Center – Open the the public

Wednesday, November 9th
“Jewish Court Records: Gender and ‘Jewish Autonomy'” (chair: Suzanne Desan)
9:00-10:45 AM
5233 Mosse Humanities  – For Faculty and Grad Students | RSVP to greene7@wisc.edu

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.

Sponsored George L. Mosse Program in History, The Department of History, Center for German & European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Hillel, and The Center for European Studies.