Considerations of Jews in antiquity commonly emphasize the role of common institutions (such as the Jerusalem Temple) and shared traumatic experiences (such as exile) in generating distinctive modes of memory formation and memorialization. This paper takes a different approach. By drawing from recent discussions of memory and postmemory developed in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and visual studies, and by considering diverse data from wall paintings, ceiling decorations, inscriptions, graffiti, and mosaics, the ensuing analysis demonstrates how variegated were the practices and dynamics of memory among Jews living in Roman Syria and elsewhere. Asking different types of questions about memorial practices documented in synagogues and surrounding buildings in Dura‐Europos and Apamea challenges regnant assumptions about commonalities in Jewish memory and argues for a more localized and spatial approach to Jewish memory practices, the dynamics of which were as personal as they were collective, and as particular as they were locally contingent

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罗马叙利亚语符号中的记忆，后记忆和位置

古代对犹太人的考虑通常强调共同机构（例如耶路撒冷圣殿）和共享的创伤经历（例如流亡）在产生独特的记忆形成和纪念方式方面的作用。本文采用了不同的方法。通过对社会学，人类学和视觉研究领域中有关记忆和后记忆的最新讨论，并考虑壁画，天花板装饰，题词，涂鸦和马赛克等各种数据，随后的分析表明了这种作法的多样性居住在罗马叙利亚和其他地方的犹太人的记忆力和动态。