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

Title
Jewish history and Jewish memory : essays in honor of Yosef Hayim / edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, David N. Myers.
Publication
[Waltham, Mass.] : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009
  • 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.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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 -- The Yiddish Shevet Yehuda: a study in the "Ashkenization" of a Spanish-Jewish classic / Micahel Stanislawski --
  • (cont.) 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 --
  • (cont.) 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 on Jewish modernization / Michael A. Meyer -- Auschwitz and Atlantis: comments on a story by Georges Perec / Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
  • (cont.) Between Haskalah and Kabbalah: Peter Beer's history of Jewish sects / Michael Brenner -- Hasidic hagiography and Jewish modernity / Ira Robinson -- Leon Halevy and modern French Jewish historiography / Aron Rodrigue -- History and memory of the self: the autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden / Jacob J. Schacter -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: the teacher / John M. Efron.
ISBN
0874518717 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98014431^
OCLC
  • 1034542077
  • SCSB-11945270
Owning Institutions
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