History and Memory
Yosef Yerushalmi, who died Tuesday, was a pioneer in the field of Jewish studies
| 1:42 PM Dec 10, 2009
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, a leading Jewish historian who mentored a generation of scholars, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 77.
Within the field of Jewish history, Yerushalmi was first recognized in the early 1970s for his groundbreaking work on the conversos, Jews who converted to Catholicism but kept some Jewish rituals alive in secret ...


