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S'està carregant… Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto (1978)de Barbara Myerhoff
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Anthropologist Barabara Myerhoff studies a group of elder Jews in West Coast USA. While doing this survey, she besomes involved in their lives and gives us a moving testimony of their condition : aloneness, loss of trraditions, aging. ( ) Fascinating anthropological study of a group of aged Jewish people. I especially loved the humorous and poignant stories they told about their lives in the shtetl and about their traditions. There were so many lessons to learn about how to age vibrantly; this would be a great book to read with a book group, resharing the lines, stories, lessons, that most moved or struck you. (I didn't add a fifth star just because at times it's a little too anthropological, at times there's too much analyzing and summarizing.) A marvelous story. This was assigned reading in a master's Cultural Anthropology class, and I opened it with disgust, thinking I'd be bored silly with the topic. She had me right away. Myerhoff is a beautiful writer, and any group of people is interesting if you have the right instincts for seeing them, and conveying. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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 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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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