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Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto (1st Edition) by Barbara G. Myerhoff, Victor Turner (Foreword), B. Myerhough Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 1980 ISBN-10: 0-671-25430-8 / 0671254308 ISBN-13: 978-0-671-25430-8 / 9780671254308 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, "on |