Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. (book reviews)

Myron J. Aronoff, Rutgers University

There have been several important books published on collective memory, myth, and commemoration in Israel which are thus far only available in Hebrew (Maoz Azaryahu, State Cults; Celebrating Independence and Commemorating the Fallen in Israel 1948-1956, 1995; Nurit Gertz, Captive of a Dream: National Myths in Israeli Culture, 1988; and Immanuel Sivan, The 1948 Generation: Myth, Image, and Memory, 1991). Another book in English, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel, was not yet available at the time this ...

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