Research Catalog

Title

Number our days / Barbara Myerhoff.

Author

Myerhoff, Barbara G.

Publication

New York : E.P. Dutton, ©1979.

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Description

xiii, 306 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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 remarkable old people is, as Bel Kaufman said, "one of those rare books that leave the reader somehow changed." Here Dr. Myerhoff records the stories of a culture that seems to give people the strength to face enormous daily problems -- poverty, neglect, loneliness, poor health, inadequate housing and physical danger. The tale is a poignant one, funny and often wise, with implications for all of us about the importance of ritual, the agonies of aging, and the indomitable human spirit

Subject

• Jews > Los Angeles > Social life and customs
• Social work with older people > Los Angeles
• Older people > Los Angeles
• Juifs > Los Angeles > Mœurs et coutumes
• Service social aux personnes âgées > Los Angeles
• Personnes âgées > Los Angeles
• Jews > Social life and customs
• Manners and customs
• Older people
• Social work with older people
• Jews > Los Angeles > Social life and customs
• Older Jews > Los Angeles
• Social work with older people > Los Angeles
• Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social life and customs
• Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Mœurs et coutumes
• California > Los Angeles
• California > Venice
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social life and customs
• Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

ISBN

• 0525169555
• 9780525169550

LCCN

79008565

OCLC

• ocm18390821
• 18390821
• SCSB-2164035

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries