Barbara Myerhoff's Books
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Number Our DaysWhen noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice,...Read More
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Cleveland Jewish news, February 17, 2013
...of Romanian born and Holocaust survivor Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/appelfeld.html 1935: Birthdate of Barbara Myerhoff, acclaimed anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. 1935: Birthdate...
AOL Health, December 10, 2012
...minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself." -- Barbara Myerhoff 3. At this season celebrating light and the giving of gifts, you may want to write more than one of these letters, assuming more than one...
Huffington Post, December 10, 2012
...minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself." -- Barbara Myerhoff 3. At this...
Jewish News Weekly, October 4, 2012
...new relationship when a beloved spouse no longer recognizes us because of advanced Alzheimer’s. As USC anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff taught, there is danger in creating new ritual. It needs to feel authentic and convincing by somehow echoing the...
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, August 1, 2012
...And while documenting the life of Chasidic Jews living in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, urban anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff documents her conversion to Orthodox Judaism as she copes with her imminent death from cancer, in “Her Own Time — The...
