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

Author: Barbara Myerhoff

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Category:Religion & Spirituality
Publication Date:1980-05-09T00:00:01Z
Pages:318
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0671254308
ISBN:13:9780671254308
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.