Jewish Women on the Map - Israel Levin Senior Adult Center

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Israel Levin Senior Adult Center
201 Ocean Front Walk
90291-2408 Venice, CA
United States

The site of the ground-breaking study by Barbara Myerhoff that results in the book and film, Number Our Days.

"I intended to spend a year with them. In fact, I was with them continuously for two years (1973-1974, 1975-1976) and periodically for two more. In the beginning, I spent a great deal of time agonizing about how to label what I was doing—was it anthropology or a personal quest? I never fully resolved the question."

Read more: Women of Valor - Barbara Myerhoff - Study Your Own
Video: "I will be a little old Jewish lady"

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Ari Davidow

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Israel Levin Senior Adult Center." (Viewed on May 22, 2013) <http://jwa.org/onthemap/israel-levin-senior-adult-center>.