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| | Forty Years of Rehearsal |
 | | Public commemoration of the Holocaust is the ceremonial expression of a collective search for meaning in the past that in turn creates its own memories. |
 | | Public events, in Pierre Nora's (1989) terms, are "lieux de memoires," material, functional and symbolic sites, crystallizing and transmitting memories from one generation to the next. |
 | | Public events, such as a ceremony, constitute a "public symbol system" (Ortner 1973) that is the source from which a community discovers, rediscovers, and transforms their own culture "generation after generation." Through their structure, public events can induce action, knowledge and experience (Handelman 1990:16). |
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