CHAPTER VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. INTRODUCTION. Memory and Identity: The History of a Relationship 1
6. PART ONE: The Problem of Identity and Memory
7. CHAPTER I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? 27
8. CHAPTER II. Identity, Heritage, and History 41
9. PART TWO: Memory in the Construction of National Identities
10. CHAPTER III. National Memory in Early Modern England 61
11. CHAPTER IV. Public Memory in an American City: Commemoration in Cleveland 74
12. CHAPTER V. The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Modern Iraq 90
13. CHAPTER VI. The Historic, the Legendary, and the Incredible: Invented Tradition and Collective Memory in Israel 105
14. PART THREE: Memories of War and Wars over Memory
15. CHAPTER VII. The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument 127
16. CHAPTER VIII. Memory and Naming in the Great War 150
17. CHAPTER IX . The War Dead and the Gold Star: American Commemoration of the First World War 168
18. CHAPTER X. Art, Commerce, and the Production of Memory in France after World War 186
19. PART FOUR: Politics of Memory and Identity
20. CHAPTER XI. Building Pasts: Historic Preservation and Identity in Twentieth - Century Germany 215
21. CHAPTER XII. Creating the Authentic France: Struggles over French Identity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 239
22. CHAPTER XIII. Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory 258
23. Index 281