Recovered Roots

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Recovered Roots is written by Yael Zerubavel and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226981576 (ISBN 10) and 9780226981574 (ISBN 13).

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. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of 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 a national myth.