Foreword by Harold Bloom Preface to the 1996 Edition Preface to the 1989 Edition Prologue to the Original Edition
1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations - Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History 2. The Middle Ages - Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory 3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion 4. Modern Dilemas - Historiography and Its Discontents