{"product_id":"zakhor-9780295975191","title":"Zakhor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with \u003ci\u003eZakhor\u003c\/i\u003e he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. . . [\u003ci\u003eZakhor\u003c\/i\u003e] may well be a permanent contribution to Jewish speculation upon the dilemmas of Jewishness, and so it may join the canon of Jewish wisdom literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings, on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews . . . 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. \u003ci\u003eZakhor\u003c\/i\u003e is historical thinking of a very high order —- mature speculation based on massive scholarship.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Harold Bloom\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 1996 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 1989 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Prologue to the Original Edition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations - Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Middle Ages - Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory\u003cbr\u003e 3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion\u003cbr\u003e 4. Modern Dilemas - Historiography and Its Discontents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript - Reflections on Forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864323993943,"sku":"9780295975191","price":25.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295975191.jpg?v=1722271415","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/zakhor-9780295975191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}