ABSTRACT
Historical assessments of memory are an important addition to ethnic minority research, as previous explorations of the functions and articulations of the subject have been confined to social scientists and anthropologists. The exploration of autobiographical memory in terms of critical analysis is still a neglected field within ethnicity studies, particularly when compared to the type and amount of research emerging from American academia. This study has explored the memories of Black and Jewish communities partly because of this gap in research, but more importantly because a comparative assessment of these two groups serves to undermine certain notions about which groups can or cannot and should or should not be compared to one another.
