"Crime against Humanity" or "Crime against Jews"? Acknowledgment in Construals of the Holocaust and Its Importance for Intergroup Relations

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-161

  Vollhardt, Johanna Ray ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL RELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOCIDE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; JUDAISM; MINORITY GROUP; POST-WAR; RESEARCH WORK; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84874805211     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12008     Document Type: Article

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