"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." <i>--New York Times Book Review</i><p>"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with <i>Zakhor</i> he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. . . [<i>Zakhor</i>] 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." <i>--New York Review of Books</i><p>"[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." <i>--American Historical Review</i><p>"A brilliant and fundamentally new appraisal of collective Jewish historical memory. . . . It opens up new horizons of thinking in a style that is beautiful and a scholarship that is overwhelming."--Gerson D. Cohen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America<p><b>Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi</b> is Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, and director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.