From his first book, from spanish court to italian ghetto, to his wellknown volume on jewish memory, zakhor, to his treatment of sigmund freud in freuds moses, yosef hayim yerushalmi 19322009 earned recognition as perhaps the greatest jewish historian of his day, whose scholarship blended vast erudition, unfettered creativity, and lyrical beauty. One of yerushalmis primary points is that history as we think of it now is nothing like it was in the premodern era. En lisant zakhor, jewish history and jewish memory. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor ebook by yosef hayim yerushalmi 9780295803838.
Read the fulltext online edition of zakhor, jewish history and jewish memory 1999. Jewish history and jewish memory, however, argues that what has been understood as history in jewish circles from the biblical era until fairly recent times is considerably different that what the modern reader might expect in light of the importance of and emphasis placed on memory. T he publication of most of yosef hayim yerushalmis lesserknown essays and smaller writings, competently edited and informatively introduced by david n. The publication of yosef yerushalmis zakhor in 1982 set the agenda for a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. It consists of four lectures that yerushalmi gave as part of the 1980 series of stroum lectures in jewish studies, now known as the samuel and althea stroum lectures in jewish studies, at the. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Jewish history and jewish memory is a nonfiction book first published in 1982 by the historian yosef hayim yerushalmi 1932 2009 a professor of.
Yosef hayim yerushalmi may 20, 1932 december 8, 2009 was the salo wittmayer baron professor of jewish history, culture and society at columbia university, a position he held from 1980 to 2008. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order mature speculation based on massive scholarship. Yosef hayim yerushalmi is an exemplary jewish historian of the jews, and with zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between jewish memory and jewish historiography. Reflections on yerushalmis zakhor the jerusalem post. Jewish history and jewish memory that yerushalmi charted in zakhor. This was summed up in the title of his most famous book zakhor. Here then is a book in which a leading jewish historian reflects upon the. Jewish history and jewish memory samuel and althea stroum lectures in jewish studies reissue by hayim yerushalmi, yosef, bloom, harold isbn.
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Zakhor ebook by yosef hayim yerushalmi rakuten kobo. The book traces brief sketches on jewish peoples relationship to history and looks into the question of why jews did not exert serious efforts to compose history in the period between the destruction of the second temple in jerusalem and the spanish. Yerushalmi, who passed away in 2009 at the age of 77, was a preeminentand certainly. Ophra yerushalmi, a pianist and filmmaker and the widow of yosef hayim yerushalmi, whose story gilgul appears this week in the new yorker, discusses her. Dec 10, 2009 it is with deep sadness that i pass on news of the death this morning of prof. Yosef hayim yerushalmi audio books, best sellers, author. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Dec 10, 2009 yosef hayim yerushalmi, a leading jewish historian who mentored a generation of scholars, died tuesday after a long illness. Browse yosef hayim yerushalmis bestselling audiobooks and newest titles. I was a student of professor yosef hayim yerushalmi, but never a disciple. Indeed gilgul is the only story he wrote, and although yerushalmis.
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Written by yosef hayim yerushalmi, audiobook narrated by aze fellner. Aug 04, 2011 ophra yerushalmi, a pianist and filmmaker and the widow of yosef hayim yerushalmi, whose story gilgul appears this week in the new yorker, discusses her husbands work with the magazine. In the 30 years since yosef hayim yerushalmi published his poignant and profound insight into the tension between history and sacred memory, its hard to think of a more influential work by a jewish historian. Yosef hayim yerushalmi primary author only author division. It is with deep sadness that i pass on news of the death this morning of prof. Jewish history and jewish memory the samuel and althea stroum lectures in jewish studies yosef hayim yerushalmi, harold bloom on. Zakhor may well be a permanent contribution to jewish speculation upon the dilemmas of jewishness, and so it may join the canon of jewish wisdom literature. A colorfully written, subtle, and compelling examination of the tension between collective memory and modern history in the jewish context. Yosef hayim yerushalmi, a groundbreaking and wideranging scholar of jewish history whose meditation on the tension between collective memory.
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