Yosef Yerushalmi papers, 1957-2006, 1957-2006

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Series III: Research, Publications, and Lectures

Series III contains Yerushalmi's research notes, drafts of lectures and publications, and notes ans drafts of lectures and addresses presented by Yerushalmi. The files often include correspondence related to publication of the material or travel arrangements related to individual lectures or conference presentations.


Subseries III.1: Research for "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto"

This series is primarily made up of copies of primary sources and medieval documents from various libraries and archives that Yerushalmi used in his scholarly research.



Box 11 Corcos--Memiorale"


Box 11 "Cardoso: Philosophical Ideas"


Box 11 "Cardoso: Posthumous References"


Box 11 "Cardoso: manuscript dedication of copy of Philosophia Libera (Verona Library)"


Box 11 "Philosophia Libera--Prophesy"


Box 11 "University of Valladolid--Photos"


Box 11 "Alcocer Volume 7"


Box 11 "Apontamentos de Historia de Medicina"


Box 11 2 ff. from Santo Uffigio, Busta 107, complete on microfilm

(From Archivio di Stato Venezia)


Box 11 "Archivio di Stato di Venezia: Santo Uffizio, Busta 107" (Cardoso)


Box 11 Abraham Cardoso manuscripts at NYU


Box 11 Notes, letters, and a paper written in a non-Castilian dialect, begins with "Trípoly de Bebería"


Box 11 "Sabbatian Letters"--Portuguese


Box 11 Ezechiel (Pedro) de Castro--"Amphitheatrum Medicum"--Verona, 1646


Box 11 Archivo Histórico Nacional--"Cuenca" (?)


Box 11 Cardoso--"Oración Funebre"


Box 11 Cardoso--"Utilidades del agua de la Nieve, del Bever Frio y Caliente."


Box 11 Cardoso--'Discurso sobre el Monto Vesuvio"


Box 11 Primary document from the Inquisition in Toledo


Box 11 A poem by Cardoso


Box 11 Juan de Quiñones--anti-Semitic tract


Box 11 Juan de Quiñones--appendices and notes


Box 11 Cardoso: Seminar Report


Box 11 "Series Z: An Archival Fantasy"--Correspondence


Box 11 "Series Z: An Archival Fantasy"--Notes and drafts


Box 11 "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto" Dutch publication info


Box 11 "Le Manuel de l'Inquisiteur (1230-1330)" by Antoine Dondaine and other inquisitional documents, mostly in Latin


Box 11 "Isaac Susportas--sp. Responsa manuscript"


Box 11 Cardoso--materials on Jewish physical defects--"On Male Menstruation'


Box 11 "Celorico da Beira Vallodolid"


Box 11 Marosini--"Via della Fede"


Box 11 "Dodici Maleditioni: Quali Ereditorno Gli Hebrei"


Box 11 "Cristo de la Paciencia"


Box 11 Cardoso--Preliminary seminar report


Box 11 Sabbatianism--Italy


Box 11 Cardoso: anti-Sabbatianism


Box 11 Cardoso: excerpts


Box 11 Archivo Histórico Nacional: the Inquisition


Box 11 "The Papal Inquisition in France and the Jews: A Study of their Relations from 1267 to 1394", 1267


Box 11 "Papal Bulls Relating to Inquisition in France--N. Valois, Jacques Duèse (John XXII)"


Box 11 Recall of Jews to France (Ordinances des Rois de la France, Vol. I)


Box 11 Various notes, documents, and an outline of Kabbalah from Yerushalmi's studies at Columbia


Box 11 Cardoso--Poems and Appendices


Box 11 Cardoso--Scholarly correspondence (mainly with archives)


Box 11 Correspondence on "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto" with Columbia University Press


Box 11 Photocopy request from Rutgers Library



Box 12 Notebook containing notes from Iberian and Italian archives and libraries


Box 12 Joshua Starr offprints


Box 12 Review of "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto" in Commentary


Subseries III.2: Research and Publication on Iberia

This series contains Yerushalmi's research material and scholarly output on Iberia, including articles, reviews, correspondence, and manuscripts


Box 12 Portugal: Jewish badge, 1583 (photocopy), 1583


Box 12 World Union of Jewish Studies


Box 12 "The Re-education of Marranos in the 17th Century" by Yerushalmi, 2 folders


Box 12 "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto"

(correspondence on translation issues)


Box 12 "Les Derniers Marranes"


Box 12 French reviews of "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto"


Box 12 "A Jewish Classic in the Portuguese Language"

(Yerushalmi article on Samuel Usque)


Box 12 Francisco Marquez


Box 12 Lisbon Massacre, 2 folders


Box 12 Correspondence on British version of "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto"


Box 12 The Jews in Muslim Spain, 2 folders


Box 12 "A Inscrição Hebraica de Gouveia" by Manuel August o Rodrigue


Box 12 Spanish Expulsion--Portuguese Translation


Box 12 "The Lisbon Massacre of 1506" proof pages


Box 12 "Targum Shevet Yehudah"

(various notes on the destruction of the Jews from ancient times to Spanish expulsion)


Box 12 "Manuscritos da a Juda" by Maria de Conceição Geada, 1983-1984, 2 folders


Subseries III.3: Haggadoth Research



Box 13 Correspondence of publication of "Haggadah and History" with Jewish Publication Society


Box 13 "Haggadah slides lecture"


Box 13 Yerushalmi's copy of the course material for "From Expulsion to Emancipation


Box 13 "On the Passover Haggadah" marked "Cambridge, MA"


Box 13 Bibliography of haggadoth


Box 13 Haggadoth in German, French, and Hebrew


Box 13 Venetian Haggadah


Box 13 "Illustration (Surveys)" about haggadoth


Box 13 Haggadoth in German, Hungarian, and Hebrew


Box 13 Haggadah Lists


Box 13 "Haggadah and History" reprint


Box 13 Haggadoth research


Box 13 Haggadoth correspondence



Box 38 Haggadah and History Manuscript


Box 38 Haggadah and History research Material



Flatbox 39 Haggadah and History proofs


Subseries III.4: Zakhor Materials

This subseries contains correspondence regarding various translations as well as drafts and manuscripts



Box 38 Portuguese Zakhor


Box 38 Russian Zakhor


Box 38 Hungarian Zakhor


Box 38 Russian Zakhor


Box 38 Zakhor--Lecture notes and reviews


Box 38 Zakhor--Cardoso Reprint


Box 38 Zakhor--Manuscript


Box 38 Zakhor--Reviews, Extratextual material


Box 38 Italian Zakhor


Box 38 French Zakhor


Box 38 German Zakhor


Box 38 Hebrew Zakhor


Box 38 Zakhor: correspondence and reviews

(including one from Elie Wiesel)


Box 38 Schocken edition of Zakhor


Box 38 Hebrew and German translation of Zakhor


Box 38 D. Myers review of Zakhor



Box 14 Early copy of Zakhor


Box 14 Zakhor Portuguese translation


Box 14 Zakhor Russian translation


Box 14 Zakhor photos


Box 14 Zakhor Schocken Books


Box 14 Funkenstein on Zakhor


Box 14 Zakhor Paris lecture, 1984, 2 folders


Box 14 Zakhor reviews


Subseries III.5: Various Research and Publications


Box 14 "Ein Feld in Anathoth" reviews (German)


Box 14 "Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History"


Box 14 Munich final draft: "Servants of Kings and not Servants of Servants


Box 14 Drafts for New York Times Book Review article on Scholem's work on Walter Benjamin, 2 folders


Box 14 Second Purims (Purim research)


Box 14 "Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History" French version, " 'Exil' dans l'histoire juive"


Box 14 "Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History" drafts


Box 14 "Ein Feld in Anathoth" (marked with corrections)


Box 14 Usque proofs (corrected)


Box 14 "A Field in Anathoth: Toward a History of Jewish Hope"


Box 14 "Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History" (Wagenbach Version)


Box 14 "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto" copyright


Box 14 "The Last Marranos"


Box 14 "Munich"(?) research and library searches


Box 14 "Series Z: An Archival Fantasy"


Box 14 Birnbaum Festschrift (on exile)


Box 14 Derrida research


Box 14 "Orgad"



Box 15 Derrida and Bernstein

(including a copy of a manuscript draft of Derrida's The Concept of the Archive and Yerushalmi's response)


Box 15 Paul Weindling


Box 15 Curaçao materials


Box 15 Suriname materials: Dutch archives


Box 15 Dedicated pamphlets


Box 15 Pamphlets sent to Yerushalmi with dedications, relating to studies on Iberian Jewry


Box 15 Various articles, last name beginning with "D"


Box 15 Various articles, last name beginning with "H"


Box 15 Shatzmiller


Box 15 Notes on Jews in the Byzantine Empire


Box 15 Articles by Yochanan Muffs


Box 15 Hebraica bibliography


Box 15 Sephardica materials


Box 15 Notes on Spinoza


Box 15 Arthur Cohen on Franz Kafka


Box 15 Lisbon 1984 research notes, 1984


Box 15 Jeffrey Masson and Raul Hilberg correspondences


Box 15 Yael Feldman


Box 15 "Me'assef," and an Elliot Horowitz article on the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem


Box 15 Wolf, Zunz, etc.


Box 15 Graetz-Baron


Box 15 Scholem


Box 15 Baer


Box 15 Miscellaneous articles on history



Box 16 "Servants of Kings and not Servants of Servants"


Box 16 Le Flambeau (Yeshiva University publication) with an article by Yerushalmi


Box 16 Scholem: research and publication


Box 16 Holocaust and memory, 3/21/03


Box 16 "On Baer and his Galut"


Box 16 "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto" copyright


Box 16 "Les Derniers Marranes: la Temps, la Peur, la Memoire"


Box 16 "Yiddish, What Was It?" and Yerushalmi's review of Harshav's "The Meaning of Yiddish"


Box 16 Yiddish materials


Box 16 "Clio and the Jews"


Box 16 Trilling: Todorov, 1991 April, 1991


Box 16 "The Ukrainian Uprising of 1768 an Analysis of the Jewish Sources", 1768


Box 16 "Messianic Impulses in Joseph Ha-Kohen"


Box 16 "Fin de Siècle"


Box 16 Heinrich Miller: "Warum Leo Strauss?"


Box 16 Journalism in the Soviet Union, 1991, 3 folders


Box 16 Clippings on the Baltic States, 1992


Box 16 Clippings on Georgia, 1992


Box 16 Jewish and Nazi children's literature


Box 16 Lecture: "The Talmud on CD Rom, Scholem article


Box 16 Contemporary apocalyptic materials


Box 16 Ad for "King Moshiach"


Box 16 Private life of Albert Einstein clipping


Box 16 Memo regarding a copy of Shoenberg's "Der Biblische Weg"


Box 16 "Texte 2"

(in French)


Box 16 Turkish and Russian documents


Box 16 Zionist poetry



Box 19 Research Notes and Bibliographic Cards

(Index Cards)


Box 19 Portuguese works relating to Jews and Judaism


Box 19 Iberian Antijudaica


Box 19 Port. in response


Box 19 Introduction


Box 19 Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella


Box 19 Expulsion from Sicily


Box 19 Pre 1492 Diaspora, 1492


Box 19 Portugal


Box 19 Greek Islands


Box 19 Messianism


Box 19 Alphabetical cards with authors and their books



Flatbox 39 Archivio di Stato: Verona - indices


Flatbox 39 Newspapers of Netherland Antilles, 1982


Flatbox 39 "Messianic Lunacy", bulk 1986-2001


Subseries III.6: Lectures

Yerushalmi kept very detailed records of his lectures. Here is not only the content of the lectures, often marked up with notes to himself, but also correspondence about his lectures and travel information.



Box 17 "Between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam: The Place of Curaçao and the Caribbean in Early Modern Jewish History"


Box 17 "Sephardic Jewry between Cross and Crescent"


Box 17 "Between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam: The Place of Curaçao and the Caribbean in Early Modern Jewish History"


Box 17 "Sephardic Jewry between Cross and Crescent"


Box 17 "Spiritual Reactions to the Expulsion of Jews from Spain" (in French)


Box 17 "Translations into Yiddish as a Mirror of East European Jewish Culture"


Box 17 Lisbon lecture


Box 17 "Servants of Kings and not Servants of Servants," communication with Heinrich Meier for publication, 3 folders


Box 17 "Servants of Kings and not Servants of Servants" (Stanford-Heyman Center)


Box 17 Spinoza lecture (English, Spanish, French)


Box 17 Spinoza Lecture (French, English)


Box 17 "From the Archives of the Inquisition of Toledo"


Box 17 "Series Z: An Archival Fantasy"


Box 17 Schoenberg lecture


Box 17 Jewish Museum lecture on Freud's Jewish identity


Box 17 LBI lecture


Box 17 Museums and memory lecture


Box 17 "Haggadah and History" reprint info


Box 17 Annenberg lecture at University of Pennsylvania


Box 17 Emory lecture


Box 17 Johns Hopkins/Nirenberg correspondence


Box 17 Frankfurt lecture


Box 17 Venice festival and lecture


Box 17 Elmau conference logistics


Box 17 UCLA lecture correspondence


Box 17 Tel Aviv lecture correspondence


Box 17 Israeli Historical Society: Jerusalem lecture correspondence


Box 17 Correspondence: Bruno Schulz, Yad Vashem


Box 17 Correspondence: Corrado Vivanti


Box 17 Lecture at Temple B'nai Abraham correspondence


Box 17 Memphis lecture logistics


Box 17 Nexus Institute correspondence


Box 17 Dartmouth lecture correspondence


Box 17 Scarsdale lecture correspondence


Box 17 Martin Indyk correspondence



Box 18 "Public Lectures"


Box 18 Lectures on medieval Jewish history


Box 18 Lectures on Portugal and Spain


Box 18 Geneva--lecture on Sepharad


Box 18 American Academy lecture


Box 18 "Problems of Jewish Historiography" (1969 AJS lecture)


Box 18 Lecture at Fiesole


Box 18 Safra lecture galleys


Box 18 Spinoza materials


Box 18 Überweg--Cardoso


Box 18 "Jews and Discoveries" (Portugal)


Box 18 John Carter Brown Library


Box 18 Correspondence: American Academy of Arts and Sciences


Box 18 Correspondence: University Presses


Box 18 Jewish Memorial Library of East European Literature


Box 18 Conference: French Revolution and the Jews


Box 18 Annenberg Research Institute


Box 18 WNET channel 13


Box 18 AJS lecture, Fall, 1987


Box 18 Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism


Box 18 Sixteenth Century Historiography (in Hebrew)


Box 18 Trilling Lecture (Freud)


Box 18 "Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History"


Box 18 Spinoza talks, 2 folders


Box 18 Lectures entitled "For Publication" (some on Spinoza)


Box 18 Three lectures in Israel, 1976-7


Box 18 "A Field in Anatoth: Toward a history of Jewish Hope"


Box 18 "Reflections on Forgetting"


Box 18 Tübingen lecture



Flatbox 39 Lecture posters; article on Walter Benjamin, 1990-1995