Number our days: A triumph of continuity and culture among jewish old people in an urban ghetto
Häftad bok.
Hyggligt skick. Simon & Schuster 1980. 318 s. Prislapp baksida pärm. Namnad. Mycket understrykning med markeringspenna, i övrig gott skick. Engelsk tet. ’Enligt förlaget: ”When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to eplore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice,California, rather than to report on a more eotic 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.”’
