Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,1 (2014) 83-95
Keywords:
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim,
;
Jews Historiography
;
Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement)
Abstract:
While Yerushalmi is first and foremost a historian of Iberian Jewry, toward the end of his scholarly career an attention to German Jewry developed in him, which can be seen in two of his last major works, "Zakhor" (1982) and "Freud's Moses" (1991). It was his interest in racial antisemitism that led Yerushalmi to the first insight into the history of German Jews. The interest in Freud's encounter with antisemitism and his attempts to grapple with it made Yerushalmi a historian of German Jewry. In 1981 he joined the Research Group on the Psychoanalytic Study of Antisemitism as the only professional historian in the group. Characteristically, Yerushalmi eschewed the topic of the Holocaust.
DOI:
10.1007/s10835-014-9200-7
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