Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and the dilemmas of commemoration /
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| Author / Creator: | Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series, anthropology and Judaic studies SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11199290 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441632111 1441632115 1438428391 9781438428390 9781438428314 1438428316 |