Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Quotes

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

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.