This issue: Memory and remembrance The editor The decay and restoration of Jewish memory A leading Jewish historian discusses the role of historiography Y.H. Yerushalmi Collective memory and archetypal thinking How Jewish group memory was preserved through the ages David G. Roskies The irresistible power of memory The supreme duty towards memory and the need to forget after the Holocaust Elie Wiesel The forgotten: A poem by a boy in the Terezin labor camp Orce (Zdeneck Ornest) The man who stepped out of his shoes A poem by a 20th-century Israeli poet Uri Zvi Greenberg Blotting out the memory of Amalek A Deuteronomic injunction to wipe out a savage people Jeffery H. Tigay Twenty personal tips to improve your memory The Rabbis of yesteryear take you to the head of the class The Talmud A Hebrew lesson: the rootword z-kh-r Dr. Joseph Lowin