ZakhorοΌJewish History and Jewish Memory
β Scribed by Yerushalmi, Yosef
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 196
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Preface to the Schocken Edition
Acknowledgments
Prologue
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
Preface
1. BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC FOUNDATIONS
2. THE MIDDLE AGES
3. IN THE WAKE OF THE SPANISH EXPULSION
4. MODERN DILEMMAS
Postscript
Index
Back Cover
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