Yosef Yerushalmi papers, 1957-2006, 1957-2006

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Series I: Freud and Psychoanalysis

This subseries contains various forms of research on Freud, specifically Freud's Moses and Monotheism. There are articles on this topic that Yerushalmi has saved, some with Yerushami's notes. There are also photocopies from the Library of Congress of Freud's drafts of the work, in Freud's own handwriting.


Subseries I.1: Freud Research



Box 1 Copy of an early draft of Freud's Moses when it was still under the title of Judaism Terminable and Interminable: An Exploration of Freud's Moses and Monotheism


Box 1 Freud's Moses --additional corrections and materials


Box 1 Freud on the "Historical Novel" manuscript


Box 1 Yale, Freud Series, Fall, 1998


Box 1 Yale University Press correspondence on Freud


Box 1 General correspondence, Freud


Box 1 Freud-Miscellaneous


Box 1 Freud--Art Museum, SUNY


Box 1 Freud Museum


Box 1 Psychohistory


Box 1 Transcription of manuscript for Moses and Monotheism


Box 1 Trilling lecture on Moses and Monotheism, November 1986


Box 1 Moses and Monotheism General Material


Box 1 Jacob Arlow--"Ahad ha-'am, Freud and the Wellsprings of Psychoanalysis"


Box 1 Copies of HaDoar on Freud


Box 1 Jacob Bernays Correspondence


Box 1 Ernst Blum--"Über Sigmund Freuds: Der Mann Moses und die Monotheistische Religion"


Box 1 Articles by Brainin and Kaminer


Box 1 H. S. Chamberlain--"Foundations of the Nineteenth Century"


Box 1 Paper by James Dittes on Moses and Monotheism


Box 1 Wilhelm Dolles--"Das Jüdische und das Chrtistliche als Geistesrichtung"


Yisrael Doryon


Box 1 "Mamlekhet Linkaeus"


Box 1 Letters from Freud (copies)


Box 1 Ernst Simmel--"Anti-Semitism: A Social Disease"


Box 1 Moses and Monotheism Manuscript Draft, 2 folders



Box 2 Freud archive catalog from Library of Congress, including copy of "Wenn Moses ein Ägypter war…" by Freud


Box 2 Freud introductory letters in Yiddish, from YIVO


Box 2 Jacob Freud inscription in English, German, and Hebrew


Box 2 Photocopies of Freud's correspondence with Stefan Zweig


Box 2 Freud letters from YIVO


Box 2 Goethe, Heller, Schiller articles


Box 2 C. Hutton "Freud and the Family Drama of Yiddish," Andrew Sunshine "Yiddish and Psychoanalysis"


Box 2 S. Hirsch "Qorot Yisrael v'Amonto"


Box 2 J. Kirsch "Jung's Transference on Freud: Its Jewish Element"


Box 2 H. Kohn "Eros and Sorrow"


Box 2 W. Koppers "Professor Pater Wilhelm Schmidt"


Box 2 Lowenberg Materials


Box 2 C. May lan "Freuds Tragischer Komplex'


Box 2 Review of Moses and Monotheism by Alter and McGrath


Box 2 Articles by Mortimer Ostow


Box 2 W. Schmidt "Der Ödipus-Komplex der Freudichen Pyschoanalyse…"


Box 2 W. Schmidt "Zur Judenfrage"


Box 2 W. Schmidt "Das Rassenprinzip des Nationalsozialismus"


Box 2 Ernst Sellin "Mose und seine Bedeutung für die israelitisch-jüdische Religionsgeschichte"


Box 2 Leonard Shengold "A Parapraxis of Freud's in Relation to Karl Abraham"


Box 2 Peter Swales various articles


Box 2 Peter Swales "Freud, Minna Bernays, and the Conquest of Rome"


Box 2 Peter Swales "Freud, Martha Bernays, and the Language of Flowers"


Box 2 Peter Swales "Freud, Cocaine, and Sexual Chemistry"


Box 2 Edwin Wallace "Freud's Mysticism and its Psychodynamic determinants


Box 2 Arnold Zweig Archive articles


Box 2 Miscellaneous articles


Box 2 Miscellaneous articles, several from Zvi Lothane


Box 2 Max Graf "Reminiscences of Professor Sigmund Freud"


Subseries I.2: Freud Publications

The second subseries includes the various publications that Yerushalmi produced about Freud. His opus magnum on the subject wasFreud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable, and there are several iterations and edits of the work in this subseries. However, it also contains several speeches that Yerushalmi gave on the subject, as well as articles that he published about Freud before publishing his book.


Box 2 "Freud on the Historical Novel", 3 folders


Box 2 Peter Gay Affair

(Freud "spoof" review)


Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable



Box 5 Manuscript--Corrected Copy, 4 folders


Box 5 Index


Box 5 Publication Materials


Box 5 Copy of Freud's Moses from when it was still entitled Judaism Terminable and Interminable: An Exploration of Freud's Moses and Monotheism


Box 5 Index


Box 5 Manuscript marked with corrections, 2 folders


Box 5 Manuscript Draft


Box 5 Correspondence on Freud, especially with Yale University, 2 folders


Box 5 Freud's Moses correspondence


Box 5 Reviews, 4 folders



Box 3 International Editions, 9 folders


Box 3 Yale Lecture on Freud, 6 folders


Box 3 "Freud" Paris copy for lecture, May -June 1990


Box 3 Appendix II, Jacob Freud's Hebrew inscription


Box 3 Miscellaneous and more on Moses and Monotheism


Box 3 Manuscript Draft, 4 folders


Box 3 Yale Notes


Box 3 Yale Bibliography


Box 3 Yale University Press manuscript of Freud's Moses for Psychotherapy Book Club


Box 3 Corrected Galley, 1991


Box 3 Trilling Freud lecture, "discarded drafts but important for later expansion," notes, etc.


Box 3 Freud anniversary lecture: The Psychoanalytic study of the child


Box 3 Moses of Freud and Moses of Schoenberg: drafts of sources



Box 4 "The Purloined Kiddush Cups: Reopening the Case on Freud's Jewish Identity"


Box 4 Freud "Am Oved" manuscript


Rozenzweig Lectures


Box 4 The Fourth Humiliation, 2 folders


Box 4 Freud, Jewish Historian


Box 4 Father Religion, Son Religion, 3 folders


Box 4 A Case History, 3 folders


Box 4 Monologue with Freud, 4 folders


Box 4 Freud's Moses appendices


Box 4 Notes to Lecture I


Box 4 "The Moses of Freud and the Moses of Schoenberg" (French translation)


Box 4 Freud's Moses French galleys


Subseries I.3: A Psychoanalytic Study of Anti-Semitism

This subseries focuses on the relationship between psychology, and more specifically psychoanalysis, and Judaism. This subseries mostly consists of articles and meeting minutes.



Box 6 1986


Box 6 1981-1982, 3 folders


Box 6 1982-1983, 4 folders


Box 6 1983-1984, 4 folders


Box 6 1984-1985, 4 folders



Box 7 1986, 4 folders


Box 7 1987, 4 folders


Box 7 1987-1988, 4 folders


Box 7 1990, 2 folders


Box 7 Anti-Semitism bibliography--Columbia University



Box 8 1990, 4 folders