Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel by Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel

Nachman Ben-Yehuda

424 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 ...

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