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In this essay I discuss the relationship between memory, identity, and justice. Each of these terms adum brates a wide field of concepts, with deep practical, literary, and philosophical roots and controversies. Given the unm anageably large range of those concepts, I will focus on social or collective memory as one of the sources of the persistence of a community across time. That continuity, I will suggest, makes possible the community as a subject o f justice, specifically as a subject of attribution, a body responsible for its past and (relatedly) able to commit itself to a future (Booth, 2006). Core parts of the underlying perplexities at issue here can be elicited from reflection on questions of the following kinds.
