[PDF.29rt] Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto

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

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 | #115810 in Books |  Touchstone |  1980-05-09 |  1980-05-09 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.80 x5.31l,.66 | File type: PDF | 318 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Astonishingly Uplifting Book|By Judith Shapiro|I found this book amazing – truly life changing. It discusses many of life’s most important questions such as: Why do some people die young while others live to extreme old age? How can one cope with impending death? If God exists, why does he permit suffering? What must one do to feel a sense of integrity and compl| |Charles Silberman The New York Times Book Professor Myerhoff is that rarity, a social scientist who writes with a novelist's eye and ear....She teaches us more about "the proper way to live" than all the self-help books combined.

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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 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 dai...

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