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- Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies (discontinued)
summary
Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin. How does a society cope with the challenge of acknowledging and commemorating difficult aspects of its past? In Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi develops a timely sociology of commemoration, drawing on the public memory of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995. She identifies and analyzes the building blocks from which commemoration is made: agency, space, time, and narrative. Acting as a guide, she leads the reader through monuments and gravestones, memorial services and political demonstrations, rituals both moving and banal, and individuals determined to remember, as well as those who wish to forget. Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration examines the meanings, boundaries, opportunities, and limits of commemoration, a phenomenon not unique to Israel but shared by many nations across the globe
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. ii-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 2 Agents of Memory
- pp. 21-52
- 3 Times to Remember
- pp. 53-73
- 4 Spaces to Remember
- pp. 75-93
- 5 Escorting the Mnemonic Narrative
- pp. 95-115
- 6 Forced to Remember
- pp. 117-144
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- pp. 145-159
- Bibliography
- pp. 193-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438428390
MARC Record
OCLC
550648618
Pages
227
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No