Julius Carlebach

Background

Julius Carlebach was born on December 28, 1922 in Germany. He was the grandson of Rabbi Salomon Carlebach (1845–1919) and his wife Esther Carlebach, part of the Carlebach family of prominent German Jews.

Education

Carlebach went to school in London, and was a sailor in the Royal Navy for ten years and managed an orphanage for Jewish children in Norwood. From 1964 he was a research student at the University of Cambridge and then taught at the University of Bristol.

Career

Much of his family was imprisoned in the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Latvia. In 1959 he went to Kenya, where he worked until 1963 in Nairobi and also served as rabbi and wrote about the Jewish community in that nation.There he also headed the Department of Sociology. In 1989 he worked at the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg. He was its rector until 1997.

Achievements

• In 1994, Carlebach received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

• Articles or Essays

  • Juvenile prostitutes in Nairobi

    1962

• books

  • The Jews of Nairobi

    1962

• Other Work

  • Caring for Children in Trouble

    1970

  • Judaism in the German environment

    1977

  • Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of Judaism

    1978

  • Second Chance: Two Centuries Of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom

    1991

  • Problems of the Jewish University life

    1981

  • Orthodox Jewry in Germany - the Final Stages of Tübingen

    1986

  • On the history of the Jewish woman in Germany

    1993

  • Family relationships of deprived and non-deprived Kikuyu children from polygamous marriages

  • The Forgotten Connection: Women and Jews in the Conflict between Enlightenment and Romanticism

Membership

Carlebach was a board member of the Leo Baeck Institute in 1992.

Connections

He was married to Myrna Landau.In Kenya, the couple's two sons were born, Joseph Zvi Carlebach and Ezriel Carlebach.

References

• Learned outsiders | Times Higher Education (THE)
• SA-SIG - Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy: Southern Africa Sub-continent SA-SIG provides information of interest to those researching Jewish family history in the communities of South Africa, Lesotho (Basutoland), Botswana (Bechuanaland), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Swaziland, Moçambique and the former Belgian Congo.