Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

University of Washington Press, 1996 - Religion - 154 pages

“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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User Review  - nbmars - LibraryThing

This is a collection of essays on Jewish history and Jewish memory. One of Yerushalmi’s primary points is that “history” as we think of it now is nothing like it was in the pre-modern era. There were ...

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Zakhor by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi A unique meditation on the role memory, forgetting and history plays in the life of the Jewish people. From the Torah to the Spanish Inquisition and the assimilation ...

About the author

Onoto Watanna (pen name for Winnifred Eaton) was a popular writer of American romance novels. Daughter of a Chinese mother and English father, she used her own mixed heritage to explore diverse social issues and exploited the Orientalist fantasies of her readership to become a best-selling author. Samina Najmi is visiting assistant professor in English at Wheaton College and has written extensively on women and race in Asian American literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory; The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
• Author: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0295975199, 9780295975191
• Length: 154 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Judaism / History; Social Science / Jewish Studies