Because new nations need new paths, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition. In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. She focuses on the nationalist interpretation of the defense of the Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135, and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into national myth.
- ISBN10 0226981541
- ISBN13 9780226981543
- Publish Date 1 June 1997 (first published 15 October 1995)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 9 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 340
- Language English