From Shrine to Forum: Masada and the Politics of Jewish Extremism

2008. Israel Studies 13(2): 146-63. With Theodore Sasson. Zionist collective memory has long associated Masada with the struggle to secure Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel. This article examines the effects of the political upheavals of the Oslo and post-Oslo periods on the meanings ascribed to Masada. It documents the popularity of a critical…

Posted by kelnersj on September 21, 2011 in Articles, Research, articles, collective memory, israel, tourism

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Review of The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age

Review of Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider’s The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age (Temple University Press, 2005) 2007. Social Forces 86(2):873-5 From the review: “’The past is not dead. It is not even past.’ Faulkner’s words might serve as the epigraph to the entire field of collective memory studies. Its key insights –…

Posted by kelnersj on September 21, 2011 in Research, Reviews, collective memory, reviews

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