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JOSEPH ZVI CARLEBACH
PERSONAL AND FAMILY PAPERS
Scope and Content Note
Joseph Carlebach, born in Luebeck to the Orthodox Rabbinic family, had a remarkable career serving as a Senior teacher in Jerusalem, Kovno, and Berlin. He also held positions as Director of the Talmud Torah school and Chief Rabbi of Jewish communities in Hamburg, Altona, and Schleswig-Holstein. Known for his passionate oratory skills, he authored numerous books and articles published in contemporary Jewish press.
The majority of Joseph Carlebach's personal archive is preserved in New York by the Family of the descendants of his son, Rabbi Shlomo Peter Carlebach [1925-2022].
Additionally, the JCI-Archive houses four reels of microfilm from New York, and a collection of published works, photograps, memoires, original autographs and photocopied correspondence from the
Research Archive of Miriam Gillis-Carlebach.
Timeline of Life
January 30, 1883
Born in Luebeck, the fifth son of Rabbi Salomon Carlebach and Esther nee Adler.
1894-1901
Study in Katharineum in his hometown
Torah lessons with Rabbi Mordechai Gumpel
1902-1909
Academic studies in Berlin and Heidelberg
1905-1907
Mathematics and natural science teacher at the Laemel School and the Jewish Teacher's Seminar in Jerusalem
1908-1914
Margaretenschule Berlin, Senior teacher
July 1914
Rabbinical Seminary Ordination in Berlin
1915-1918
Military service, Headmaster of the Jewish Realgymnasium in Kaunas
January 1919
Marriage to Sharlotte Helene, daughter of Dr. Julius and Martha Preuss in Berlin
1919-1921
Rabbi of Lübek, after the death of his father Rabbi Dr. Salomon Carlebach
1922-1925
Headmaster of the Talmud Torah School in Hamburg
1925-1935
Chief Rabbi of the Hochdeutsche Israeliten-Gemeinde Altona
July-August 1931
A journey of Keren-Hatorah to the Jewish Culture Institutions in East Europe
February-March 1935
A journey to Eretz Israel
1932-1936[?]
Schriftführerder der Vereinigung traditionell-gesetzestreuer Rabbiner Deutschlands
1936-1941
Chief Rabbi of Deutsch-Israelitischen Synagogenverband Hamburg
Chacham of the Portugiesisch-Jüdische Gemeinde
December 4, 1941
Deportation to the Jungfernhof concentration camp near Riga, together with his wife Lotte and their 4 children: Shlomo, Ruth, Naomi and Sarah.
March 26, 1942
Joseph and Lotte Carlebach and their three daughters were murdered in the Bikernieki forest and buried in a mass grave of the Jews of the Riga Ghetto
Collection Overview
Folders:
BOX4-2 - Publications
BOX4-3 / ROW2-10 / ROW2-18 - Letters and Manuscripts
Creators:
Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zwi Carlebach [1883-1942]
Lotte Carlebach (Preuß) [1900-1942]
Dates: 1897 - 1941
Languages: German, Hebrew, English
Collection series:
Private and Family correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, published works, memories.
Related Collection:
Miriam Gillis-Carlebach - Research Archive
Online Publications:
Joseph Carlebach, by Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, 2006
Highlights on the Jewish Past of Hamburg, 2008
Found in:
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem
Additional Resources:
Leo Baeck Institute Archive, New York
Content series: Joseph Carlebach - Published works
Das Heilige Land. Ein Vortrag. Berlin, 1909
L'kutim mikitwei Haralbag [Levi ben Gerson]. Berlin, 1910
Lewi ben Gerson als Mathematiker. Berlin 1910
Rede zum Andenken an .. Dr. Ephraim Adler. Lübeck, 1910
Von Duldern und Kämpfern [Hirsch Hildesheimer] Fr.a.M., 1911 [Vorwort]
Rabbi Gumpel s.A. Lübeck, 1912
Sanitätsrat Dr.Julius Preuß s.A. Berlin, 1913
Zur Verlobung von Onkel Joseph mit Lotte Preuß, 31.12.1917
Amtseinführung.. des Herrn Oberrabbiner Dr. Joseph Carlebach. Altona, 1925
The Jewish Library, XI: The Bible. New York, 1927
Das Hohelied. Fr.a.M.: Hermon-Verlag, 1931
Die Drei großen Propheten: Jesajas, Jirmija und Jecheskel. Fr.a.M.: Hermon-Verlag, 1932
Dr. Meier Hildesheimer zum Gedenken. Altona, 1934
Programm zur Feier des 250- jährigen Bestehens der Großen Synagoge zu Altona, 9.12.1934
Das gesetzestreue Judentum. Berlin, 1936
Das Buch Koheleth. Ein Deutungsversuch. Fr.a.M., 1936
Content series: Letters to Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Carlebach
Postcard to Ephraim Carlebach, 1.5.1900
Letters to Ephraim Carlebach, 1902-1903
Letter to Ephraim Carlebach, 10.8.1904
Postcard to Ephraim Carlebach, 26.8.1905
Letters to Ephraim Carlebach, 1906-1907
Letters to Ephraim Carlebach - Family, 1919
Letter to Ephraim Carlebach, 1926
Ephraim Carlebach - Letter to Paul von Hindenburg, 9.1.1929
Letters to Ephraim Carlebach - Family, 1932-1936
Letters to Ephraim Carlebach Family, 10.1936
Content Series: Letters of Lotte Carlebach (Preuss) and the children
Programm zur Hochzeit Preuß-Carlebach, 1.1.1918 [?]
Letter to Otto Preuß, 18.2.1932
Shlomo Peter Carlebach Bar-Mitzvah, 8.1938
Julius Carlebach's [Bulli] Barmizwo-Feier, Hamburg 11-12.1.1936
Lotte Carlebach - Letters to Fanny Samson, 1939
Postcards to Martha Preuß, 1939
Letter to the children, 10.10.1939
Letter from Miriam Carlebach, 1936-1939
Letter to Miriam Carlebach, 8.4.1940
Letter from Esther Carlebach, 1939 [?]
Letters from Eva Carlebach, 1940
Shlomo (Peter) Carlebach - Letters to Oma Preuß, 1941
Noemi Carlebach - Letters to Oma Preuß, 1939-1941
Ruth Carlebach - Letters to Oma Preuß, 1938-1940 [?]
Content Series: Letters to Miriam Cohn (Carlebach)
Letter to Miriam Cohn (Carlebach), 1937 [?]
Letter to Miriam Cohn (Carlebach), 4.8.1938
Letters to Willy and Miriam Cohn, 1937-1939
Content Series: Private correspondence and papers
Letter to Hanna Neuman (Adler), 31.1.1911
Letters by Joseph Carlebach, Rabbi Leo Rosenak, Kovno, 1916
Zeugnis [Chajim Frank], 18.6.1923
Postcard to Dora Lehmann, 28.7.1927
Letter from Jacob Rosenheim, 15.7.1929
Letter to Dr. Markus Cohn, 16.1.1931
Postcard to Herta Levi, 29.9.1936
Letter to Iska Goldschmidt Family, 26.6.1936
Postcard to Carl Ellern, 26.5.1939
Letter to Brager Family [?], 20.2.1939
Letters to Ilse Moeller-Floersheim, 1939
Letters to Ilse Moeller-Floersheim, 1938-1940
'Gruß aus der Heimat'. Nach Pessach 1941.
Letter from Rabbi David Carlebach to Rabbi Dr. Alexander Carlebach, 1946[?]
Postcard to Dora Lehmann, 2.8.1930
Letter to Herr Asher [about Leo Deutschländer], Siwan 5696
Letter to Moses Carlebach Fam., 22.11.1936
'An dle lieben Hamburger unseres Freundeskreises', 1939
Letters to Dr. Fritz Warburg, 11.1939
Content Series: Manuscripts, Teudot Haver
Teudat Haver Rabbi Esriel ben Jehiel Zvi, 1939 [he]
Teudat Haver Rabbi Yehuda ben Jecheskel [Dukesz], 1934[?]
Unserem Freunde Dr. Henry Philipp s.A. zum Gedächtnis.
Im Hause von Hugo Mainz.., 25.3.1932
Einen Geburtstagsgruß meinem lieben Freunde Dr. Manasse, 2.1931
Content Series: Articles in Memory of Joseph Z. Carlebach
Content Series: Photographs of Rabbi Joseph Carlebach
Content Series: Lotte and Joseph Carlebach's Family Album
Content Series: Carlebach Family Events
Content Series: Martha and Dr. Julius Preuss - Family Album
Content Series: Hamburg - Synagogues
Content series:
Letters and Manuscripts
Published works
Photo Album
Related Collection:
Miriam Gillis-Carlebach - Research Archive
Finding Aid:
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