Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
β Scribed by Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Year
- 2002;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies 1980
- Edition
- 1. Univ. of Washington Press paperback ed., 3. print
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
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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