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ix aCknowledgMenTs The editors would like to thank the Columbia Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, and its director, Professor Jeremy Dauber, for its generous subvention of this volume. It is especially fitting that the institute, which Yosef Yerushalmi headed for more than a quarter-century, has supported this project. Thanks are also due to the Robert Burr Endowed Chair of the UCLA History Department for its support. We are indebted to Brandeis University Press for its willingness to publish this volume: at UPNE Editor in Chief Phyllis Deutsch undertook this project with her usual gusto and discernment. Susan Abel and Lori Miller presided over important details at crucial points in the process. Will Hively proved to be an attentive copy editor whose work has made this a better volume. Martin White completed the index for the book with great dispatch and efficiency. Financial assistance for the index came from the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry of Brandeis University. The institute’s executive director, Sylvia Fuks Fried, has been a source of ongoing encouragement and wise counsel. We thank her for arranging for a key piece of translation for the volume from Golan Moskowitz. The editors are indebted to a number of research assistants, all UCLA Ph.D. candidates, who worked on the volume.Talia Graff and Nadav Molchadsky provided key assistance at various stages of the project.With her keen editorial eye and uncommon competence, Lindsay King saw this volume through to completion as style editor and researcher. This volume benefited greatly from thediligenceof the research librarians at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library, who pointed the way to some valuable early material, and at the Columbia University Library University Archives where Yosef Yerushalmi’s papers are kept. Michelle Chesner, the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia , and Carrie Hintz, head of Archival Processing, were particularly helpful in tracking down and making available papers and photos that were indispensable for this volume. Professor David Berger of Yeshiva University and Diana Benmergui, the interim university registrar, provided important assistance, particularly in finding Yerushalmi’s undergraduate transcript. We also thank Eric Vigne, Yosef Yerushalmi’s close friend in Paris, who generously shared Yerushalmi’s original English texts, upon which he relied in his excellent French translations. x | acknowledgmenTs Finally, the editors would like to extend their deep thanks to Ophra Yerushalmi, the gifted pianist to whomYosef Yerushalmi was married for half a century before his death in 2009. Ophra Yerushalmi offered unfailing support for this volume and kindly agreed to provide access to papers in her own home, as well as permission to republish a number of essays that had already appeared in print. ...