Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi was the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society , Columbia University a position he held from 1980 to 2008. He was replaced by Elisheva Carlebach [ [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/fac-bios/Yerushalmi/faculty.html faculty ] ]

Born in New York City in 1932, he has a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1966 where Salo Baron was his dissertation director. From the time of receiving his PhD until his appointment to the Columbia faculty, Yerushalmi taught at Harvard University where he was Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization and chairman of the Department of Near Easter Languages and Civilizations. [ http://www2.jewishculture.org/awards/scholarship/awards_scholarship_yerushalmi.html ]

Books

* Jewish History and Jewish Memory - 1998
* Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory - 1996
* Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable – 1993
* From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto- 1971
* Haggadah and History - 1975

Honors and Prizes

* National Jewish Book Award, 1983, 1992
* Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research
* Honorary Member of the Portuguese Academy of History in Lisbon
* Newman Medal for Distinguished Achievement by the City University of New York, 1976
* Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1976-77
* Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities, 1983-84
* Guggenheim Fellow, 1989-90

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