This is a pioneering study that traces the remarkable career of the seventeenth-century Marrano physician and Jewish apologist, Isaac Cardoso. Born in Portugal in 1604, Cardoso was raised and educated in Spain, where he lived for several decades as a nominal Christian. After teaching philosophy and medicine at the University of Valladolid, he came to Madrid, where he rapidly gained access to its vibrant social and intellectual life, and ultimately rose to be physician at the royal court. In 1648, at the height of his fame, he abruptly left Spain for Italy. In Venice he emerged openly as a professing Jew, and subsequently settled in Verona as physician in the ghetto. There he summed up his scientific and philosophic views in his Philosophia libera, and finally wrote his magnificent defense of the Jew and Judaism, Las excelencias de los hebreos. 
Though focused on Cardoso, Professor Yerushalmi's study is not only a biography but also a history of "Marranos," the crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal, in the seventeenth century. It explores the wide range of the Marrano phenomenon, its social milieu, the nature of Iberian anti-semitism, the relationship between Marranism and Jewish Messianism, and important aspects of the Judeo-Christian polemic. New insights are offered into the scope of Jewish knowledge available to Marranos in Spain and Portugal, and their integration and re-education in the Jewish communities to which they fled. Above all, the author has attempted to see the "two lives" of Cardoso - that of the Iberian Marrano, and that of the Jew in an Italian ghetto - as a unity. To do so, he has integrated a vast array of original sources in Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Hebrew, and several other languages. 
This book won the only Clarke F. Ansley Award given in 1966. 
[Taken from the inside of the dust jacket]

From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics

Religion & Spirituality

YERUSHALMI, Yosef Hayim

Christian Books & Bibles

Columbia University Press

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Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

History

Europe

University of Washington

This is a pioneering study that traces the remarkable career of the seventeenth-century Marrano physician and Jewish apologist, Isaac Cardoso. Born in Portugal in 1604, Cardoso was raised and educated in Spain, where he lived for several decades as a nominal Christian. After teaching philosophy and medicine at the University of Valladolid, he came to Madrid, where he rapidly gained access to its vibrant social and intellectual life, and ultimately rose to be physician at the royal court. In 1648, at the height of his fame, he abruptly left Spain for Italy. In Venice he emerged openly as a professing Jew, and subsequently settled in Verona as physician in the ghetto. There he summed up his scientific and philosophic views in his Philosophia libera , and finally wrote his magnificent defense of the Jew and Judaism, Las excelencias de los hebreos .Though focused on Cardoso, Professor Yerushalmi's study is not only a biography but also a history of "Marranos," the crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal, in the seventeenth century. It explores the wide range of the Marrano phenomenon, its social milieu, the nature of Iberian anti-semitism, the relationship between Marranism and Jewish Messianism, and important aspects of the Judeo-Christian polemic. New insights are offered into the scope of Jewish knowledge available to Marranos in Spain and Portugal, and their integration and re-education in the Jewish communities to which they fled. Above all, the author has attempted to see the "two lives" of Cardoso - that of the Iberian Marrano, and that of the Jew in an Italian ghetto - as a unity. To do so, he has integrated a vast array of original sources in Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Hebrew, and several other languages.This book won the only Clarke F. Ansley Award given in 1966.[Taken from the inside of the dust jacket]

From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto: Isaac Cardoso : A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics

Univ of Washington Pr

Zakhor discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies.

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Judaism

"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship." - New York Times Book Review

World

Moses and Monotheism, Freud’s last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud’s inner life―of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity.
In Freud’s Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud’s text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud’s intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud’s psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche―his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi’s eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud’s last work provides a reappraisal of Freud’s feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a “Jewish” science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud’s identity as a “godless Jew.”

Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

ZAKHOR (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

Schocken

Jews in exile have often struggled for the protection of the highest governmental power, whether king, emperor, caliph, or pope, because they learned early that their safety could not be entrusted to the goodwill of their gentile neighbors or the local authorities. Alexandrian Jews in the Hellenistic period relied on Imperial Rome instead of their native Alexandria, and Jews in medieval Europe sought ties with the Carolingian emperors, circumventing all inferior feudal relationships. In all such cases of vertical alliances Jews have both gained and lost. In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them. Through an exploration of Jewish attitudes and their consequences at this important juncture in Jewish history, he uncovers the “myth of the royal alliance” in the thought of Ibn Verga and others. He offers a fresh review of available data on the course of the pogrom and relates it to the Shebet Yehudah. Two appendices include the German account of the massacre, based on three printed editions (two of them previously unknown), and the major documentary sources, giving historians access to key primary materials as well as Yerushalmi’s analysis. Even the modern era did not fundamentally change these dynamics. Hannah Arendt emphasized the extent to which Jews have allied themselves to the modern nation-state and have become vulnerable when other groups oppose that nation-state. Modern Jews have frequently clung to an uncritical faith in the state’s protection, even when that faith bears no correspondence to reality.

The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah: Hebrew Union College Annual Supplements 1

Hebrew Union College Press

Haggadah &amp; History is much more than a history of the Passover story. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history as reflected in the haggadah itself. Two hundred facsimile plates reproduce representative pages from rare printed haggadot in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections: the libraries of Harvard University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. This visual history is complemented by Professor Yerushalmi’s fascinating historical introduction and richly detailed place descriptions. The result is a rare blend of scholarship and art.

Haggadah and History

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah (Hebrew Union College Annual: Supplements)

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From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto: Isaac Cardoso : A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

ZAKHOR (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah: Hebrew Union College Annual Supplements 1

Haggadah and History

The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah (Hebrew Union College Annual: Supplements)