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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Information

Publisher

Brandeis University Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9781684580637

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Religion

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword to the English Edition: Yerushalmi’s Last Seminar
Note to the French Edition
Introduction
Note to the English Edition
1. Zakhor, From Memory to Reading History
2. Choosing History
3. Back to Childhood
4. The Path to Cardoso
5. The Melody of History
6. From Zakhor to Freud
7. Derrida
8. New York: 1939–1945
9. Who Makes History? Questions of Interpretation
10. A Jewish Kid from the Bronx at Harvard and Columbia
11. Professor Yerushalmi
12. Questions of History and Historiography
13. The Collector
14. Gershom Scholem
15. The Ritual Experience
16. Truth in History and Its Avatars
17. Messianism and Zionism
18. The State of Israel and Messianic Significance
19. An American Jew
20. From Yesterday to Tomorrow
Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century
Notes
Index
About the Authors