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“[M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. ... So that those who need can find that this person did live, those events really took place, this interpretation is not the only one.”

Quote by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Book:Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
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Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory

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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, born on May 20, 1932, and passed away on December 8, 2009, was a scholar in an unknown field. more

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