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The Recovery of Masada: A Study in Collective Memory
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The battle of Masada in 73 A. D. was one of the least significant and least successful events in ancient Jewish history. Our concern is to understand why, after almost two thousand years of obscurity, this event was suddenly remembered and commemorated by Palestinian Jews. Precipitating the 1927 recovery of Masada was the appearance of a very popular poem which used the ancient battle as an allegory of the Jewish settlers' struggle. By restoring this poem to its social context, and by analyzing both in terms of George Herbert Mead's theory of symbolically reconstructed pasts, this article explains the modern appeal of Masada, then brings it to bear on our general knowledge of collective memory.
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- Authors
- Schwartz, B., Zerubavel, Y., & Barnett, B. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia
- City University of New York
- Venue
- The Sociological Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1986-06-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 147-164
- ISSN
- 0038-0253
- 1533-8525
- Cited by
- 74
- References
- 35
- Language
- en
- Licence
- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 10684 d)
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