"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

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