Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration

Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Agents of Memory: Voice and Exit3. Times to Remember4. Spaces to Remember5. Escorting the Mnemonic Narrative6. Forced to Remember7. Concluding Remarks: Commemoration, Fragmentation, Israeli Society and BeyondAppendix: On MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

"The empirical analysis is very rich and highlights the political divisions in Israeli society … the book is a valuable contribution to the study of Israeli politics and to a 'difficult past' that the literature has neglected." — Political Studies Review"Somewhat unconventionally but provocatively, sociologist Vinitzky-Seroussi locates in her acknowledgments how the 1995 assassination of Israel's prime minister prompted this study of the complexities and significance of commemoration. What follows is a richly theorized and well-researched exploration of the contours and toponymy of the 'map of memory' that locates Rabin as 'a highly present absence' in time and space." — CHOICE