The cure of amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic texts

Reuven Kiperwasser

The cure of amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic texts

Reuven Kiperwasser

Department of Comparative Religion

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

This paper aims to discuss an aspect of classical rabbinic culture that deserves more scholarly attention: memory. Though there has been a good deal of debate about orality in rabbinic literature,2 the systematic study of orality in relation to memorization has begun only recently.3 In his book, Michael Swartz proposes “a brief outline of the issue, sketching in fairly broad strokes the methodological and historical significance of memory for the study of Rabbinic Judaism and indicating some ancient Jewish strategies for harnessing it for the sake of Torah,”4 a task that he then expertly achieved.5 In this paper, I want to add a few new observations regarding the value of memory and forgetfulness, and propose an explanation for the mechanisms of these processes as understood in rabbinic thought.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Defining Jewish Medicine
Subtitle of host publication	Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions : Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Université / École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris
Editors	Lennart Lehmhaus
Publisher	Harrassowitz Verlag
Pages	119-141
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Print)	9783447108263
State	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Episteme
Volume	8

RAMBI publications

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Amnesia -- Treatment
Memory -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Mnemonics
Rabbinical literature

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Kiperwasser, R. (2021). The cure of amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic texts. In L. Lehmhaus (Ed.), Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions : Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Université / École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris (pp. 119-141). (Episteme; Vol. 8). Harrassowitz Verlag.

Kiperwasser, Reuven. / The cure of amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic texts. Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions : Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Université / École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. editor / Lennart Lehmhaus. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. pp. 119-141 (Episteme).

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