Between Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl: Changing inscriptions of sacrifice on Jerusalem's "Mountain of memory"

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1147-1174

  Feldman, Jackie ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Holocaust; Landscapes of fear; Memory; Military cemetery; Monument; Paths; Sacrifice; Virtual space; Zionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049134574     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2007.0062     Document Type: Note

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