"The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone": The differential use of memory techniques in Israeli high schools

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-114

  Goodman, Yehuda C ^a   Mizrachi, Nissim ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Citizenship participation; Ethnoclass; Hegemony; High school; Israel; Memory techniques; National memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749130206     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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