Yosef Haim Yerushalmi Dies

Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, a groundbreaking and wide-ranging scholar of Jewish history whose meditation on the tension between collective memory of a people and the more prosaic factual record of the past influenced a generation of thinkers, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 77 and lived in Manhattan.

The cause was emphysema, said his wife, Ophra Yerushalmi, a concert pianist.

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In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1959 after she came from Israel to study piano with Claudio Arrau, Dr. Yerushalmi is survived by a son, Ariel, of France, and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Yosef.