Joseph Carlebach Institute

Commemorating the life and legacy of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach, his family, and the Jewish community of Hamburg.
Institutional Profile
The Institute was founded in March 1992 in honor of Joseph Zvi Carlebach, the last Chief Rabbi of the Hamburg Jewish community. It was established as a joint academic initiative in partnership with the Joseph Carlebach Working Group at the University of Hamburg and the Institute for the History of the German Jews.
In accordance with partnership agreements, the Institute has organized eleven International Carlebach Conferences and coordinated long-term academic cooperation programs. These include an annual student seminar conducted in collaboration with the University of Magdeburg, which was held regularly for twenty years between 1997 and 2017.
From its founding until 2015, the Institute was led by its founder, Prof. Dr. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach.

In May 2015, the directorship was assumed by Prof. Dr. George Yaakov Kohler, an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) and a leading scholar of modern Jewish religious thought.

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Location and contact

Bar-Ilan University
Area 508-13
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://jphilosophy.biu.ac.il/node/2091
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