Elisheva Carlebach
Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University and an early modern Jewish historian with extensive research on Jewish communal life and ritual practices.
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Jan 29, 2026 • 1h
Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Debra Kaplan, a historian of early modern Jewish communities and social welfare, and Elisheva Carlebach, a scholar of Jewish communal life and ritual, explore newly found archival treasures. They trace women's roles in kehillot, print culture and literacy, women-led societies and burial work, mikva'ot and midwifery, marginalized lives, household inventories, and comparisons with Christian counterparts.
