Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

American historian, holder of the Salo W. Baron Chair of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University. His work "Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory" (1982) contrasts collective memory—liturgical and transmitted—with modern critical historiography, a foundational distinction that inspires the name and approach of the Zakhor platform. He also shaped the study of the Marranos and the reading of Freud's "Moses."

Sources & resources

• Zakhor : histoire juive et mémoire juive (1982)
• De la cour d'Espagne au ghetto italien (Isaac Cardoso) (1971)
• Mémoire d'un historien : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi — France Culture — Les Lundis de l'histoire ↗
• Les réceptions de l'œuvre de Yerushalmi (colloque, 5 mai 2011) — Akadem ↗