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Title

Jewish history and Jewish memory : essays in honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi / edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, David N. Myers.

Publication

Hanover : Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-
• Carlebach, Elisheva.
• Efron, John M.
• Myers, David N.

Description

xv, 462 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 29

Uniform Title

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 29.

Subject

• Jews > Historiography
• Judaism > Historiography
• Judaism > Doctrines

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Of marranos and memory : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the writing of Jewish history / David N. Myers -- On the uses of history in medieval Jewish polemic against Christianity : the quest for the historical Jesus / David Berger -- Between history and myth : the Regensburg expulsion in Josel of Rosheim's Sefer ha-miknah / Elisheva Carlebach -- The Mainz Anonymous : historiographic perspectives / Robert Chazan -- Forging Jewish memory : Besamim rosh and the invention of pre-emancipation Jewish culture / Talya Fishman -- Creating a tale of martyrdom in Tulczyn, 1648 / Edward Fram -- History as homiletics : the use of historical memory in the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira / Marc Saperstein -- The Yiddish Shevet Yehudah : a study in the "Ashkenization" of a Spanish-Jewish classic / Michael Stanislawski -- Some concepts of time and history in kabbalah / Moshe Idel -- Maimonides' view of happiness : philosophy, myth, and the transcendence of history / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Re/membering the covenant : memory, forgetfulness, and the construction of history in the Zohar / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Exile, assimilation, and identity : from Moses to Joseph / Pierre Birnbaum -- The rise and fall of the Italian Jewish model in Germany : from haskalah to reform, 1780-1820 / Lois C. Dubin -- Interminably maligned : the conventional lies about Jewish doctors / John M. Efron -- Memories of Jewishness : Jewish converts and their Jewish pasts / Todd M. Endelman -- Sanctifying Scopus : locating the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus / Arthur A. Goren -- Texts and contest : myths of origin and myths of belonging in nineteenth-century Bohemia / Hillel J. Kieval -- Reflections of Jewish modernization / Michael A. Meyer -- Auschwitz and Atlantis : comments on a story by Georges Perec / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- Between haskalah and kabbalah : Peter Beer's history of Jewish sects / Michael Brenner -- Hasidic hagiography and Jewish modernity / Ira Robinson -- Léon Halévy and modern French Jewish historiography / Aron Rodrigue -- History and memory of self : the autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden / Jacob J. Schacter -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi : the teacher / John M. Efron.

Call Number

*PBN (Yerushalmi) 99-485

ISBN

0874518717 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98014431

OCLC

38550300

Title

Jewish history and Jewish memory : essays in honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi / edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, David N. Myers.

Imprint

Hanover : Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, c1998.

Series

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 29

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ; 29.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-

Carlebach, Elisheva.

Efron, John M.

Myers, David N.

Research Call Number

*PBN (Yerushalmi) 99-485