Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • I - History, collective memory, and countermemory
  • The dynamics of collective remembering
  • The Zionist reconstruction of the Past
  • II - The birth of national myths
  • The Battle of Tel Hai
  • The Bar Kokhba Revolt
  • The Fall of Masada
  • III - Literature, ritual, and the invention of tradition Hebrew literature and education
  • The arm, the plow, and the gun
  • Bar Kokhba, the bonfire, and the lion
  • The rock and the vow
  • IV - Politics of commemoration
  • Tel Hai and the Meaning of Pioneering
  • The Bar Kokhba Revolt and the meaning of defeat
  • Masada and the meaning of death