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This collection documents the Carlebach family and its religious, intellectual, and educational legacy from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. Central figures include Rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach (1883–1942), his wife Lotte Carlebach (née Preuss), their descendants, and later generations, notably Prof. Dr. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, founder of the Joseph Carlebach Institute (JCI). The photographs reflect Jewish family life, rabbinical leadership, educational institutions, forced migration during the Nazi period, and post-war remembrance and scholarship.
The collection comprises several hundred photographic items, dating from circa 1890 to 2004. Materials include original prints and digitized images documenting family life, rabbinical and academic leadership, Jewish schools, synagogues, migration and exile, commemorative practices, and institutional activities associated with the Joseph Carlebach Institute.
Jewish family life; rabbinical leadership; Jewish education in Germany; synagogues and communal institutions; childhood and youth; migration to Eretz Israel / Palestine; Holocaust memory; post-war Jewish scholarship; remembrance culture.
Germany (Hamburg, Altona, Berlin, Leipzig, Lübeck, Karlsruhe); Poland (Warsaw); France (Paris); Mandatory Palestine / Israel (Tel Aviv, Zikhron Yaakov, Kibbutz Hafetz Haim, Kfar HaNoar HaDati); European travel routes and maritime passages.
Circa 1890–2004, with a primary concentration on the period 1900–1939. Later materials document post-war commemoration, scholarly activity, and institutional continuity.
Rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach, Lotte Carlebach (Preuss), Rabbi Dr. Salomon Carlebach, Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Carlebach, Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Carlebach, Esriel Carlebach, Wilhelm and Miriam Cohn, Julius Carlebach, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, et al.
The collection is associated with Jewish educational and rabbinical institutions in Germany, the Rabbinerseminar Berlin, and post-war academic and commemorative initiatives, including Bar-Ilan University and the Joseph Carlebach Institute.