Commemoration and Memory

A bibliographic collection of articles, research and reflections, books, lectures and discussions, artistic creations, and various links, all related to the subject of commemoration, memory and the grieving process.

From a psychological perspective

William Brewer, What is Recollective Memory?,
in D.C. Rubin (Ed.), Remembering our Past.
Cambridge UP.
Cathy Caruth (Ed.), Trauma: Explorations in
memory, Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.
Martin Conway, Autobiographical Memory:
An introduction, Open UP, 1990.
Jeffrey Prager, Presenting the Past:
Psychoanalysis and the sociology of
misremembering, Harvard UP, 1998.
S. Freud, Mourning and Melancholia, London 1917
C.M. Parkes, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, London 1986.
M. Weiss, 'We Are All One Bereaved Family':
Personal Loss and Collective Mourning in
Israeli Society, Studies in Contemporary
Jewry 14, 1999.



From a philosophical perspective

Aaron Ben-Zeev, Two Approaches to Memory,
Philosophical Investigations 9, 1986.
David Cockburn, Other Times: philosophical
perspectives on past, present, and future,
Cambridge UP, 1997.
Christoph Hoerl/Teresa McCormack (Ed.),
Time and Memory, Oxford UP, 2001.
Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory,
Harvard UP, 2002.
David Stern, Models of memory: Wittgenstein
and cognitive science, Philosophical
Psychology 4, 1991.
J.O. Urmson, Memory and imagination. Mind 80:607. 1971.



From a multi-cultural perspective

Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of the Theory of Practice, Cambridge UP, 1977.
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, Cambridge UP, 1989.
Adrian Forty/Susanne Kuchler (Ed.), The Art of Forgetting, Oxford (Berg), 1999.
John R. Gillis, Commemorations, Princeton UP, 1996.
Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory
(Heritage of Sociology), University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Susanne Kuchler/Walter Melion (Ed.), Images of Memory: On remembering and representation, Smithsonian Inst.Press, 1991.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Perennial, 1999.
Bruce Mau, Friedrich Kittler, Gabriele
Brandstetter,Aleida Assmann (Ed.),
Remembering the Body: Body and
Movement in the 20th, Hatje
Cantz Pub., 2000.

From a historical perspective

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism, Verso Books, 1991.
Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian: The memory of Egypt in Western monotheism,
Harvard UP, 1997.
Amos Funkenstein, Perceptions of Jewish History, University of California Press, 1993.
Patrick H. Hutton, History As an Art of Memory, Univ. of Vermont, 1993.
Daniel Levy, Nathan Sznaider, Erinnerung
im globalen Zeitalter: Der Holocaust, Frankfurt a.M. 2001.
Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory, Columbia UP, 1998.
Terence Ranger, Eric Hobsbawn (Ed.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge UP, 1992.
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, University of Washington Press, Reissue edition 1996.
James E. Young, The Texture of Memory:
Holocaust Memorials and Meaning,
Yale UP, 1994.
James E. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences
of Interpretation, Indiana UP, 1990.




From an artistic perspective

Eretz-Israel Museum (Ed.), Map of a Memory. Spectrum of Commemoration in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin, Tel Aviv 1996.
A.B. Kaufman, Art in boxes: an exploration of meanings, in: The Arts in Psychotherapy 23 (3) 1996.



Selected links

For a Sociology of Collective Memory

The Generation of Memory: Reflections on
the "Memory Boom" in Contemporary
Historical Studies

History and Memory. Studies in Representation
of the Past

Memory, Autobiography, History:

haGalil onLine - Silent Witnesses

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