TY - JOUR
AU - Patai, Raphael
AB - General 1239 YOSEF HAYIM YERUSHALMI. Zakhor: Jewish History and WILLIAM H. MCNEILL. The Pursuit ofPower: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000. Chicago: Jewish Memory. (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish History.) Seattle: University of Washing­ University of Chicago Press. 1982. Pp. x, 405. ton Press. 1982. Pp. xvii, 144. $17.50. $20.00. Zakhor is "remember" in Hebrew. It is an ancient At the end of a distinguished career, Sir Charles Oman observed that to be a civilian historian of biblical i~unction, as important as any religious commandment, whose observance had a central role military affairs was a lonely and unrewarding busi­ ness. He wrote, in an essay called "A Plea for in keeping the Jewish people alive through their dispersion of two millennia. Zakhor is the title of a Military History," "Both the medieval monastic short but remarkable book that discusses the millen­ chroniclers and the modern liberal historiographers nial tension between the age-old Jewish command­ had often no closer notion of the meaning of war ment-and tradition--of remembrance and the rel­ than that it involved various horrors and is attended atively new Jewish interest in history. It contains the by a lamentable loss of life. Both 
TI - Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish History.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1982. Pp. xvii, 144. $17.50
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/88.5.1239
DA - 1983-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/yosef-hayim-yerushalmi-zakhor-jewish-history-and-jewish-memory-samuel-fTDh01NQJO
SP - 1239
EP - 1239
VL - 88
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -