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Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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Description for Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Paperback. Discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
“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
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295975191
SKU
V9780295975191
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About Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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.
Reviews for Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
"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."
American Historical Review
"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with Zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish ... Read more
American Historical Review
"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with Zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish ... Read more