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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, Culture and Society
(History)

yhy1@columbia.edu

 
 
 
 

Professor Yerushalmi specializes in medieval and modern Jewish history with special emphasis on Spanish, Portuguese, and German Jewry, as well as on the history of historiography and the history of psychoanalysis. He received his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966. His published works include From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto (1971), Haggadah and History (1975), The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah (1976), Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (1982), Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable (1991), Ein Feld in Anathoth (1993), and Sefardica: Essais sur l'histoire des juifs hispano-portugais (1998). He holds honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, University of Haifa, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He is currently completing a translation and study of Solomon Ibn Verga's Hebrew chronicle, Shevet Yehudah (the Scepter of Judah).