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.
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface to the 1989 Edition
Prologue to the Original Edition
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 Dilemas - Historiography and Its Discontents
Postscript - Reflections on Forgetting
Notes
Index
