Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto by Barbara Myerhoff, Victor Turner, Victor Turner
Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto

Barbara Myerhoff, Victor Turner, Victor Turner

Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto

Barbara Myerhoff, Victor Turner, Victor Turner

318 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective slow-paced
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When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these...

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