<p>"A remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment - and tradition - of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history."</p>

American Historical Review

<p>"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with <i>Zakhor</i> he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. . . [<i>Zakhor</i>] may well be a permanent contribution to Jewish speculation upon the dilemmas of Jewishness, and so it may join the canon of Jewish wisdom literature."</p>

New York Review of Books

<p>"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. <i>Zakhor</i> is historical thinking of a very high order —- mature speculation based on massive scholarship."</p>

New York Times Book Review

“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
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Discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.
Foreword by Harold BloomPreface to the 1996 EditionPreface to the 1989 EditionPrologue to the Original Edition1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations - Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History2. The Middle Ages - Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion4. Modern Dilemas - Historiography and Its DiscontentsPostscript - Reflections on ForgettingNotesIndex
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"A remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment - and tradition - of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history."
"A brilliant and fundamentally new appraisal of collective Jewish historical memory. . . . It opens up new horizons of thinking in a style that is beautiful and a scholarship that is overwhelming."
A brilliant and fundamentally new appraisal of collective Jewish historical memory... It opens up new horizons of thinking in a style that is beautiful and a scholarship that is overwhelming. -- Gerson D. Cohen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780295975191
Publisert
1996-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Washington Press
Vekt
249 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Foreword by

Biographical note

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.