Elisheva Carlebach

Elisheva Carlebach is Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, at Columbia University. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy (1990), winner of the National Jewish Book Award; Divided Souls: Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern German Lands (2001); and Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe (2011), which won the AJS Schnitzer Prize. She has held fellowships from the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Tikvah Center of NYU Law School, and the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania. She served as editor in chief of AJS Review and was past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. She is the editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880.