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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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    Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

    Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

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    Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

    The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

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    Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

    [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.