Quotes from 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.

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

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.