Dani Tracz
Of all the rabbinical injunctions, the most enduring and distinctive is Zakhor! - Remember! We acknowledge readily enough our duties to our contemporaries; but what of our obligations to those who came before us? We talk glibly of what we owe the future - but what of our debt to the past? "The Memory Chalet" Tony Judt We cannot draw the lines between too much and too little historical research, for we have no halakhah beyond ourselves. If this be the choice, I will take my stand on the side of "too much" rather than "too little", for my terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. Let the flood of books and monographs grow, even if they are only read by specialists. Let unread copies lie on the shelves of many libraries, so that if some be destroyed or removed others will remain. So that those who need can find that this person did live, that those events really took place. 'ZAKHOR - Jewish History and Jewish Memory" Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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