On memory
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach
By: Doron Mendels (ed.).
Contributors: Mendels, Doron.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9783039110643
Subjects: Collective memory -- Congresses.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Congresses.; Interdisciplinary research -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes case studies from a 2005 conference held in Jerusalem.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Us and them : empire, memory and identity in Claudius' speech on bringing Gauls into the Roman senate / Alexander Yakobson; title: Holocaust memorial : a paradigm of competing memories in the religious and secular societies in Israel / Arye Edrei; title: Analyzing collective memory / Jeffrey Andrew Barash; title: Saint impresarios in Israel as agents of memory / Yoram Bilu; title: Memory and forgetfulness in law / Nili Cohen; title: From society to memory : reflections on a paradigm shift / Dan Diner; title: What changes in the brain when we learn / Idan Segev; title: Memory and architecture : visual constructions of the Jewish holy land / Bianca Kühnel; title: How are we expected to remember the Holocaust? : Szenes versus Kasztner / Dan Laor; title: The second generation of Kfar Etzion : a study of collective memory / Amia Lieblich; title: "Hear O Israel" : radio, nationbuilding and collective memory / Tamar Liebes; title: A model of public memory and a note on Günter Grass's Crabwalk / Doron Mendels; title: Anthropological texts : mirrored memories of researchers and subjects / Moshe Shokeid; title: Personal agency and the possession of memory / Jonathan H. Slavin; title: Remembering trauma : the role of acetylcholinesterase in the formation of fear memories / Gabriel Zimmerman, Hermona Soreq; title: Antiquity and the renewal paradigm : strategies of representation and mnemonic practices in Israeli culture / Yael Zerubavel.