"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...