Between culture and family: Jewish-Israeli young adults relation to the holocaust as a cultural trauma

Traumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 110-119

  Lazar, Alon ^a   Litvak Hirsch, Tal ^b   Chaitin, Julia ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cultural and family processes; Cultural trauma; Israel; Third generation Holocaust survivors

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849090901     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608320332     Document Type: Article

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