Young societies with long memories. A study into "remembering" in Israel/Palestine and South Africa

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject History - World History - Basics, grade: 69, Oxford University, language: English, abstract: This essay will investigate whether a memory can predate a nation’s formation and whether they can, in fact, be ‘long’ by conducting a study from two angles - the first exploring persisting memories from before 1948 and the second examining the memories of that year ...