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In her own time : the final fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff / Act III Communications ; Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California ; directed by Lynne Littman ; produced by Vikram Jayanti and Lynne Littman.
LIBRA VHS F869.L89 J54 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hasidim--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
- Hasidim.
- Jews--California--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Myerhoff, Barbara G.
- Cancer--Patients--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Patients.
- Manners and customs.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema, 1986.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Tells also how, after exhausting medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions, faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews.
- Credits:
- Camera, William Moffitt ; editor, Suzanne Pettit.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1559741376
- OCLC:
- 20235039
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