Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
Barbara Myerhoff
336 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0452011221
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Language: English
Publish: May 1, 1994
AnthropologyCulturalEthnographyHistoryJewishJudaismMemoirNonfictionRead For SchoolSociology
Anthropologist Myerhoff’s penetrating exploration of the aging process is brilliant sociology–as well as living history–that tells readers about the importance of ritual, the agonies of aging, and the indomitable human spirit. “(The book) shines with the luminous wit of old age.”–Robert Bly.