Prejudiced, historical witness, and responsible: Collective memory and liminality in the Beit Hashoah museum of tolerance

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-366

  Prosise, Theodore O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Holocaust; Liminality; Museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946003730     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370309370161     Document Type: Article

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