The Red Heifer and the Historian’s Clues. This week, as we read Parashat Chukkat, I find myself thinking of the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, who died only a few days ago at the age of eighty-seven. He was one of the greatest historians of his generation. I still remember the summer of 1988, when, during the breaks in a summer job delivering telephone directories, I carried one of his books with me. There I was, waiting for the next bundle of telephone directories to be