Jewish history and Jewish memory
Subtitle: essays in honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
By: edited by Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, David N. Myers.
Contributors: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim, 1932-; Carlebach, Elisheva.; Efron, John M.; Myers, David N.
Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series ;; 29
Publisher: Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Jews -- Historiography; Judaism -- Historiography; Judaism -- Doctrines
Description: Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity.

Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.