Zakhor Jewish History and Jewish Memory / Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi ; foreword by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-2009, author.

Bloom, Harold, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.

Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 1996.

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword; 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 DILEMMAS: Historiography and Its Discontents; POSTSCRIPT: Reflections on Forgetting; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295803838

0295803835

OCLC:

935254497