Bereavement customs, grief and rituals among ethiopian immigrants to Israel

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-123

  Grisaru, Nimrod ^a   Malkinson, Ruth ^b   Witztum, Eliezer ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Complicated grief; Culture sensitive interventions; Ethiopian jews; Mourning rituals

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749130991     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IL.16.2.b     Document Type: Article

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