Author

Publication

1998-01-13 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivewhyhistorymatter00gerd
  • ISBN-100195122895
  • ISBN-139780195122893
  • Goodreads499350
  • LibraryThing5540
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780195122893
  • Open LibraryOL7388542M

Classifications

  • DDC901
  • LCCD16.8 .L377 1997

Description

In Why History Matters, Lerner brings together her thinking and research of the last sixteen years, combining personal reminiscences with innovative theory to illuminate the importance of history and the vital role women have played in it. Why History Matters contains some of the most significant thinking and writing on history that Lerner has done in her entire career - a summation of her life and work.

First Sentence

In these days of the agony of the state of Israel, its native-born citizens and that large group of supervisors from every part of the globe who have found refuge there-all of us as Jews in the diaspora-are forced to examine our relationship with the fact of being jewish.

Excerpt

In these days of the agony of the state of Israel, its native-born citizens and that large group of supervisors from every part of the globe who have found refuge there-all of us as Jews in the diaspora-are forced to examine our relationship with the fact of being jewish.

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