Joseph Carlebach

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Dr. Joseph Hirsch (Tzvi) Carlebach (Karlebach) (January 30, 1883, Lübeck - March 26, 1942, was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist (Naturwissenschaftler).

Carlebach opened a Hebrew high school in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, during World War I. Afterwards, he became headmaster of the Talmud Torah high school in Hamburg.

He served the Jewish communities of Lübeck (1919-22), Altona (1927-36) and Hamburg (1936-1941) as chief rabbi.

After Nazi Germany banned Jewish students from attending German schools together with "Aryan" German children, Rabbi Carlebach set up a number of schools throughout Germany to educate Jewish children. His schools bore his name and were known as Karlebach-Schulen.

He was deported to the Nazi concentration camp Jungfernhof by the Nazis, where he died on March 26th, 1942 at the Jungfernhof/Jumpravmuiža concentration camp (Jumprav < Jungfern, muiža = hof) near Riga, Latvia.

His wife and younger children were also killed during the Holocaust except for one son Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who became the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor" [of students]) at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York City after the war.

Rabbi Joseph Carlebach's wife managed to send her older children to England, and they survived the war.

Joseph Carlebach was hold in the City of Hamburg and its Jewish community still in great honour. Part of the University Campus since 1990 named as the Joseph-Carlebach-Platz. To his 120th Birthday in 2003, there were donated an Joseph-Carlebach-Preis for Jewish studies, given every two years, by the State University of Hamburg.

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Carlebach, Joseph. Die drei grossen Propheten Jesajas, Jirmija und Jecheskel; eine Studie. Pp. 133. Frankfurt am Main: Hermon-Verlag, 1932
Carlebach, Joseph. Les trois grands prophetes, Isaie, Jeremie, Ezechiel. Traduit de l'allemand par Henri Schilli. Pp. 141. Paris: Editions A. Michel, 1959
Carlebach, Joseph. Moderne paedagogische Bestrebungen und ihre Beziehungen zum Judentum. Pp. 19. Berlin, Hebraeischer Verlag "Menorah", 1925
Carlebach, Joseph. Mikhtavim mi-Yerushalayim (1905-1906): Erets Yi'sra'el be-reshit ha-me'ah be-`ene moreh tsa`ir, ma'skil-dati mi-Germanyah. (Ed. and transl. Miryam Gilis-Karlibakh). Pp. 141, ill. Ramat-Gan: Orah, mi-pirsume Mekhon Yosef Karlibakh; Yerushalayim: Ariel, c1996
Carlebach, Joseph. Ausgewaehlte Schriften mit einem Vorwort von Haim H. Cohn; herausgegeben von Miriam Gillis-Carlebach. 2 vols. Hildesheim; New York: G. Olms Verlag, 1982
Carlebach, Joseph. Lewi ben Gerson als Mathematiker; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik bei den Juden. Von Dr. phil. 238, [2]. Berlin: L. Lamm, 1910
Carlebach, Joseph. Das gesetzestreue Judentum. Pp. 53. Berlin: Im Schocken Verlag, 1936.
Carlebach, Joseph. Juedischer Alltag als humaner Widerstand: Dokumente des Hamburger Oberrabiners Dr. Joseph Carlebach aus den Jahren 1939-1942. Ed. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach. Pp. 118, ill. Hamburg: Verlag Verein fuer Hamburgische Geschichte, 1990
Gerhard Paul; Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (Eds.). Menora und Hakenkreuz: zur Geschichte der Juden in und aus Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck und Altona (1918-1998). Pp. 943, ill. Neumuenster: Wachholtz Verlag, 1998