Transmitting Jewish History – Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi in Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg

Author:   Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ,  Sylvie Anne Goldberg ,  Alexander Kaye ,  Benjamin Ivry
Publisher:   Brandeis University Press
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9781684580613


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   08 November 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Transmitting Jewish History – Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi in Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg


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The deeply personal reflections of a giant of Jewish history.   Scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) possessed a stunning range of erudition in all eras of Jewish history, as well as in world history, classical literature, and European culture. What Yerushalmi also brought to his craft was a brilliant literary style, honed by his own voracious reading from early youth and his formative undergraduate studies. This series of interviews paints a revealing portrait of this giant of history, bringing together exceptional material on Yerushalmi’s personal and intellectual journeys that not only attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues of Jewish history into “general history,” but also offers profound insight into being Jewish in today's world.    

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Author:   Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ,  Sylvie Anne Goldberg ,  Alexander Kaye ,  Benjamin Ivry
Publisher:   Brandeis University Press
Imprint:   Brandeis University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9781684580613


ISBN 10:   1684580617
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   08 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the English Edition by Alexander Kaye Note to the French Edition by Ophra Yerushalmi Introduction – Sylvie Anne Goldberg I. Zakhor, From Memory to Reading History II. Choosing History III. Back to Childhood IV. The Path to Cardoso V. The Melody of History VI. From Zakhor to Freud VII. Derrida VIII. New York: 1939-1945 IX. Who Makes History?: Questions of Interpretation X. A Jewish Kid from the Bronx at Harvard and Columbia XI. Professor Yerushalmi XII. Questions of History and Historiography XIII. The Collector XIV. Gershom Scholem XV. The Ritual Experience XVI. Truth in History and Its Avatars XVII. Messianism and Zionism XVIII. The State of Israel and Messianic Significance XIX. An American Jew XX. From Yesterday to Tomorrow With “Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century” Index

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“[Yerushalmi's] profound insights into what it means to be a Jew in modern times comes out in these fascinating interviews.”  * Jewish Link *


[Yerushalmi's] profound insights into what it means to be a Jew in modern times comes out in these fascinating interviews. * Jewish Link *


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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) was one of the most eminent Jewish historians of the twentieth century. He was the Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization at Harvard University, and from 1980, the Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University. His publications include From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto; Haggadah and History; The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah; Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory; and Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable. Sylvie Anne Goldberg is associate professor at the Center for Historical Research, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where she heads the Jewish Studies Program. She is the author of several books, including Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague and Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism. Benjamin Ivry is the author of biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen. He has also translated books from the French by André Gide, Jules Verne, Witold Gombrowicz, and Balthus, among others, and has written extensively about culture for numerous media.   

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