The Masada Myth
Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of Zionists and Israeli soldiers, and the most profitable tourist attraction in modern Israel. Ben-Yehuda describes how, after nearly 1800 years, the long, complex, and unsubsta…
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- ISBN: 978-0-299-14834-8
- EAN: 9780299148348
- Produktnummer: 1618621
- Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 581 g
- Abbildungen: 13 b&w photographs
- Gewicht: 581
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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