“Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order – mature speculation based on massive scholarship.” – New York Times Book Review
Table of Content
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface to the 1989 Edition
Prologue to the Original Edition
1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations – Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History
2. The Middle Ages – Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory
3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion
4. Modern Dilemas – Historiography and Its Discontents
Postscript – Reflections on Forgetting
Notes
Index
About the author
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, and director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.
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