‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman
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This chapter analyzes how both Uman locals’ and Hasidic pilgrims’ vernacular memory, as well as official local memory, are manifested in the public space of Uman, a town in central Ukraine, and how these memories interact. It demonstrates how the memories belonging to these groups of pilgrims have been shaped since the 1990s and how they have influenced the town’s memory space. The study also shows how the town’s memory has sometimes been formed in response to these pilgrimages. I argue that there are several distinctive patterns of interaction between the Hasidic pilgrims’ vernacular memory and official local memory. I define these patterns as follows: cooperation between official memory and the vernacular memory of the pilgrims; an exchange between various vernacular memories of several competing groups of pilgrims; the symbolic conflict of two opposing vernacular memories of the space; and competition between official memory and the vernacular memory of the pilgrims.
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9781000543308
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Link to book (paywalled), ‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman
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‘Vernacular’ and ‘Official’ Memories: Looking Beyond the Annual Hasidic Pilgrimages to Uman. . 2022: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-2671
