Elisheva Carlebach Jofen is an American scholar of early modern Jewish history.
In 1986 she completed her PhD in Jewish History at Columbia University.
[1] Subsequently, she was a professor of Jewish History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City.
[1] Since 2008 she has been the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish history, culture and society at Columbia University.
[2][3] Carlebach is married to Rabbi Mordechai Jofen, the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Novardok yeshiva Beis Yosef in Brooklyn, New York City.