Carlebach Joseph (30 January 1883, Lübeck – 26 March 1942, Riga) – Jewish religious thinker, exegete, rabbi, and teacher, founder of the Hebrew High School in Kaunas. In the years 1901–1905, he studied natural sciences and mathematics in Berlin. He took final exams at the local rabbinical seminar in 1914. In 1920, he became the chief rabbi of Lübeck, in 1926 – of Altona and Hamburg. In the years 1921–1926, he was the director of the famous Talmud Torah School in Hamburg. In December 1941, he was deported together with many members of his kehilla to the concentration camp in Riga and murdered. Carlebach was a representative of Orthodox Judaism, open to secular knowledge, an author of respected commentaries to the prophetic books of the Bible, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes.

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