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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,... read more
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Death and the ocean are protagonists in Basha's life.
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- Barbara G. Myerhoff (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 979.494
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