The cross-generational transmission of trauma: Ritual and emotion among survivors of the Holocaust

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 342-361

  Jacobs, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion; ritual; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955803864     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241610387279     Document Type: Article

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