Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

By: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Narrated by: Aze Fellner

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for History. This book discusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.

The book is published by University of Washington Press.

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Critic reviews

"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. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order - mature speculation based on massive scholarship." ( New York Times Book Review)

"Zakhor 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." ( New York Review of Books)

Wonderful book!

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This is a must book for each one that has a relation to historiography and Jewish memory.

Best book of history of Judaism written in centuries

Yerushalmi relates a missing book long time a due with great research and knowledge. A must for everyone interested in Judaism