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Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim was born on May 20, 1932 in New York City. Son of Leon and Eva (Kaplan) Yerushalmi.
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Jews in exile have often struggled for the protection of the highest governmental power, whether king, emperor, caliph, or pope, because they learned early that their safety could not be entrusted to the goodwill of their gentile neighbors or the local authorities. Alexandrian Jews in the Hellenistic period relied on Imperial Rome instead of their native Alexandria, and Jews in medieval Europe sought ties with the Carolingian emperors, circumventing all inferior feudal relationships. In all such cases of vertical alliances Jews have both gained and lost. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them. Through an exploration of Jewish attitudes and their consequences at this important juncture in Jewish history, he uncovers the “myth of the royal alliance” in the thought of Ibn Verga and others. He offers a fresh review of available data on the course of the pogrom and relates it to the Shebet Yehudah. Two appendices include the German account of the massacre, based on three printed editions (two of them previously unknown), and the major documentary sources, giving historians access to key primary materials as well as Yerushalmi’s analysis. Even the modern era did not fundamentally change these dynamics. Hannah Arendt emphasized the extent to which Jews have allied themselves to the modern nation-state and have become vulnerable when other groups oppose that nation-state. Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state’s protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality.
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(This book is much more than a history of the Passover Hag...)
This book is much more than a history of the Passover Haggadah. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history-as reflected in the Haggadah itself.
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(Haggadah & History is much more than a history of the Pas...)
Haggadah & History is much more than a history of the Passover story. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history as reflected in the haggadah itself. Two hundred facsimile plates reproduce representative pages from rare printed haggadot in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections: the libraries of Harvard University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. This visual history is complemented by Professor Yerushalmi’s fascinating historical introduction and richly detailed place descriptions. The result is a rare blend of scholarship and art.
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( Jews in exile have often struggled for the protection o...)
Jews in exile have often struggled for the protection of the highest governmental power, whether king, emperor, caliph, or pope, because they learned early that their safety could not be entrusted to the goodwill of their gentile neighbors or the local authorities. Alexandrian Jews in the Hellenistic period relied on Imperial Rome instead of their native Alexandria, and Jews in medieval Europe sought ties with the Carolingian emperors, circumventing all inferior feudal relationships. In all such cases of vertical alliances Jews have both gained and lost. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them. Through an exploration of Jewish attitudes and their consequences at this important juncture in Jewish history, he uncovers the “myth of the royal alliance” in the thought of Ibn Verga and others. He offers a fresh review of available data on the course of the pogrom and relates it to the Shebet Yehudah. Two appendices include the German account of the massacre, based on three printed editions (two of them previously unknown), and the major documentary sources, giving historians access to key primary materials as well as Yerushalmi’s analysis. Even the modern era did not fundamentally change these dynamics. Hannah Arendt emphasized the extent to which Jews have allied themselves to the modern nation-state and have become vulnerable when other groups oppose that nation-state. Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state’s protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality.
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"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings, on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order--mature speculation based on massive scholarship." --New York Times Book Review "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. . . 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." --New York Review of Books "A remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment--and tradition--of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history." --American Historical Review "A brilliant and fundamentally new appraisal of collective Jewish historical memory. . . . It opens up new horizons of thinking in a style that is beautiful and a scholarship that is overwhelming."--Gerson D. Cohen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, and director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.
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Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim was born on May 20, 1932 in New York City. Son of Leon and Eva (Kaplan) Yerushalmi.
Bachelor, Yeshiva University, 1953. Master in Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary America, 1957. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1966. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary America, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Haifa, 1997. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, 1997.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Spertus Institute, 2002. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Sorbonne Paris, 2003.
Instructor Jewish history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963-1966; assistant professor Hebrew and Jewish History, Harvard University, 1966-1970; professor, Harvard University, 1970-1978; Jacob E. Safra professor Jewish history and Sephardic civilization, Harvard University, 1978-1980; department chairman near eastern languages and civilizations, Harvard University, 1978-1980; Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, Society, Harvard University director Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, New York City, since 1980.
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( Jews in exile have often struggled for the protection o...)
(Haggadah & History is much more than a history of the Pas...)
(This book is much more than a history of the Passover Hag...)
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Board directors Conference Jewish Social Studies, Psycho analytic Research and Development Fund, Editorial Board, History and Memory. Fellow American Academy Jewish Research, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Academy Portuguesa da História Lisbon (honorary), Academy of Sciences Lisboa (honorary).
Married Ophra Pearly, January 4, 1959. 1 child, Ariel.