Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	227
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-2831-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4384-2831-6
Barcode:	9781438428314

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