Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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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, born in the Bronx as the son of Russian immigrants, studied in New York at Yeshiva University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary . Yerushalmi was ordained a rabbi in 1957 . In 1966 he received his doctorate from Columbia University on the Spanish philosopher and physicist Isaac Fernando Cardoso. From 1966 to 1980 he taught as Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization at Harvard University. From 1980 he was the successor to 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 December 8, 2009 in his native New York.

Scientific work

Yerushalmi's works span a wide area, from the history of the Sephardic Jews since their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula to Jewish messianism and the tradition of German-speaking Judaism to Sigmund Freud's confrontation with religion .

In his book essay Zachor: Remember! Jewish history and Jewish memory (English 1982, German 1988), Yerushalmi dealt with the tension between the Jewish culture of remembrance and objective historiography.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, one of the most important Jewish historians of his generation, has received numerous prizes and awards for his academic work: He is an honorary doctor of 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 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2005 he received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize from the Eberhard Karls 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 . Chair for Jewish History and Culture, Inst. For Modern History, Munich 1999.
  • Servant of kings and not servant of servants , Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Stiftung Munich 1995.
  • A field in Anatot - 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 Inst., New York 1992.
  • Zakhor, Jewish history and Jewish memory , The Jewish Publ. Soc. of America, Philadelphia 1982. (various new 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 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 1966 thesis, Seattle 1971/1981.

literature

  • Elisheva Carlebach et al. (Ed.): Jewish history and Jewish memory essays in honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi , Brandeis, Waltham 1998 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2009
Place of death new York