In commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Joseph Carlebach (1883–1942) Universität Hamburg awards the Joseph Carlebach Prize. The award honors young researchers from greater Hamburg for their outstanding academic contributions to Jewish history, religion, and culture, in particular excellent course papers, degree theses, and doctoral dissertations.
Prior to his deportation to Riga in 1941, Dr. Joseph Carlebach was the last chief rabbi of the parishes Altona and Hamburg. Introduced in 2004, the Joseph Carlebach Prize aims to keep Carlebach's name alive. At the same time the award is dedicated to the rabbi's daughter Prof. Dr. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach for her unrelenting efforts to encourage understanding, cooperation, and collective remembrance.
Target group: students and doctoral students
Prize amount: EUR 3,000 (The amount may be graded according to the number of prize winners and the type of contribution)
Previous prize winners
- 2010: Arne Offermanns
(Department of Languages, Literature and Media II) for his master's thesis: "The correspondence between Ernst Lissauer and Walter A. Berendsohn 1935-1937; introduction, edition, commentary." („Der Briefwechsel zwischen
Ernst Lissauer und Walter A. Berendsohn 1935-1937; Einführung, Edition,
Kommentar")
- 2008: Katharina Kraske (Department of Languages, Literature and Media II) for her master's thesis: „Remembering Auschwitz. Representations of the Shoah in Italian literature. („Auschwitz
erinnern. Shoah-Darstellungen in der italienischen Literatur.")
- 2006:
Dr. Christine Müller (Department of Education) for her doctoral dissertation: On the meaning of religion for Jewish youths in Germany. („Zur Bedeutung von Religion für jüdische Jugendliche in
Deutschland".)
Dr. Sandra Konrad (Department of Psychology) for her doctoral dissertation: "Everybody has one’s own Holocaust." An international study on the repercussions of the Holocaust on three generations of Jewish women." („Everybody has one’s own Holocaust". Eine
internationale Studie über die Auswirkungen des Holocausts auf jüdische
Frauen dreier Generationen.)
- 2004: Dr. Christina
Pareigis (Department of Languages, Literature and Media) for her doctoral dissertation: ‚trogt zikh a gezank‘. Yiddish song lyrics from the years 1939 – 1945 Kadye Molodovsky, Yitzhak Katzenelson,
Mordechaj Gebirtig. (‚trogt zikh a gezank‘. Jiddische Liedlyrik aus den Jahren 1939 – 1945: Kadye Molodovsky, Yitzhak Katzenelson,
Mordechaj Gebirtig".); Jorun Poettering (Department of History) for her master's thesis: "Sephardic Jews from Hamburg in the 17th century Atlantic sugar trade" („Hamburger Sefarden im atlantischen
Zuckerhandel des 17. Jahrhunderts.")
