num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
titlecomplete: Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
genres: Cultural, Judaism, Sociology, Psychology, Jewish, Read For School, Ethnography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 467
publisher: Plume