Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ( born May 20, 1932 in New York; † December 8, 2009 in New York) was an American historian. He was a professor of Jewish history at Columbia University and Harvard University.

Life

Yosef H. Yerushalmi, the son of Russian immigrants in the Bronx, studied in New York at Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Yerushalmi was ordained a rabbi in 1957. In 1966 he received his doctorate at Columbia University on the Spanish philosopher and physicist Isaac Fernando Cardoso. 1966 to 1980 he taught as Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization at Harvard University. Since 1980 he was the successor of Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society and director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University in New York. From 1987 to 1991 he was President of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi died on 8 December 2009 in his hometown of New York.

Scientific Work

Yerushalmi's works span a wide area of the history of Sephardic Jews since their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula on Jewish Messianism and the tradition of German-speaking Jewry to Sigmund Freud's analysis of religion.

In his book Essay Zachor: Remember! Jewish History and Jewish Memory (English 1982, German 1988) sat Yerushalmi with the tension between Jewish memory culture and objective historiography apart.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, one of the foremost Jewish historian of his generation, was awarded for his scientific work numerous awards and accolades: He holds honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Hebrew Union College, the University of Haifa, the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. In 2005 he received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize of the University of Tübingen.

Publications (selection )

In German:

  • Israel, the unexpected state. Messianism, sectarianism and the Zionist revolution. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006.
  • Spinoza and the survival of the Jewish people. Department of Jewish History and Culture, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich 1999.
  • Servants of kings and not servants of servants, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich in 1995.
  • A field in Anathoth - experiments on Jewish history, Wagenbach, Berlin 1993.
  • Freud's Moses - finite and infinite Judaism, Wagenbach, Berlin 1993.
  • Zachor: Remember! Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Wagenbach, Berlin 1988.

In English:

  • Israel the Unexpected State: Messianism, Sectarianism, and the Zionist revolution. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006.
  • Servants of kings and not servants of servants: some aspects of the political history of the Jews, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Atlanta, 2005.
  • Freud 's Moses: Judaism terminable and interminable, Yale Univ. Press, New Heaven 1992.
  • Assimilation and racial anti- semitism: the Iberian and the German models, Leo Baeck Institute, New York 1992.
  • Zakhor, Jewish history and Jewish memory, The Jewish Publ Soc. of America, Philadelphia 1982. (various editions )
  • Re -education of Marranos in the seventeenth century, Judaic Studies Program University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati 1980.
  • Lisbon massacre of 1506 and the royal image in the Shebet Yehudah, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati in 1980.
  • Haggadah and history, Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1974.
  • Jewish people and Palestine: bibliophilic pilgrimage through five centuries, Harvard College Library. Hebrew Division, 1973.
  • From Spanish court to Italian ghetto. Isaac Cardoso: a study in seventeenth -century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics, based on the thesis of 1966, Seattle 1971/1981.
Semikhah Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Integrated Authority File
832637
de