Zakhor
"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings, on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews . . . 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\ "Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with Zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling...
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ForewordPreface to the 1996 EditionPreface to the 1989 EditionPrologue to the Original Edition1Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations: Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History12The Middle Ages: Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory273In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion534Modern Dilemmas: Historiography and Its Discontents77Postscript: Reflections on Forgetting105Notes118Index147
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Scholar Yerushalmi's book examines the gulf between history and memory in Jewish culture. (Aug.)\ \
