Research Catalog

Title

Transmitting Jewish history / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ; in conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg ; translated by Benjamin Ivry ; with "Clio and the Jews : reflections on Jewish historiography in the sixteenth century" and a new foreword by Alexander Kaye.

Author

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009

Publication

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldberg, Sylvie Anne
• Ivry, Benjamin
• Kaye, Alexander

Description

xvii, 194 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This series of interviews brings together exceptional material on Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's personal and intellectual journey, true reflection on the rupture and transmission, the fabric of history, and of Jewish being in today's world. This work also attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues of Jewish history in "general history.""--

Series Statement

Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Uniform Title

• Transmettre l'histoire Juive. English
• Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Alternative Title

• Transmettre l'histoire Juive.
• Clio and the Jews.

Subject

• Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009 > Interviews
• Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009
• Jewish historians > Interviews
• Jews > Historiography
• Judaism > Historiography
• Jewish historians

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Note

• "First edition published in 2012 by Éditions Albin Michel as Transmettre L'Histoire Juive: Entretiens avec Sylvie Anne Goldberg. Suivi de: Clio et les juifs. Réflexions sur l'historiographie juive au XVIème siècle."
• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword to the English edition: Yerushalmi's last seminar / Alexander Kaye -- Note to the French edition / Ophra Yerushalmi -- Introduction / Sylvie Anne Goldberg -- Zakhor, from memory to reading history -- Choosing history -- Back to childhood -- The path to Cardoso -- The melody of history -- From Zakhor to Freud -- Derrida -- New York : 1939-1945 -- Who makes history? Questions of interpretation -- A Jewish kid from the Bronx at Harvard and Columbia -- Professor Yerushalmi -- Questions of history and historiography -- The collector -- Gershom Scholem -- The ritual experience -- Truth in history and its avatars -- Messianism and Zionism -- The state of Israel and messianic significance -- An American Jew -- From yesterday to tomorrow -- Clio and the Jews : reflections on Jewish historiography in the sixteenth century.

Call Number

JFE 21-7910

ISBN

• 9781684580613
• 1684580617

LCCN

2021015522

OCLC

1249709565

Author

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009, interviewee.

Title

Transmitting Jewish history / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ; in conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg ; translated by Benjamin Ivry ; with "Clio and the Jews : reflections on Jewish historiography in the sixteenth century" and a new foreword by Alexander Kaye.

Publisher

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2021.

Edition

Brandeis University Press edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goldberg, Sylvie Anne, interviewer.

Ivry, Benjamin, translator.

Kaye, Alexander, writer of foreword.

Added Title

Clio and the Jews.

Other Form:

Online version: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009. Transmettre l'histoire Juive. English Transmitting Jewish history. Brandeis University Press edition Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2021 9781684580637 (DLC) 2021015523

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7910