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Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist and filmmaker who studied Jewish identity, ritual, community, and aging. Her ethnographic work Number Our Days focused on older Jewish residents of Venice, California, and combined participant observation with recorded life histories; the project also...
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Number Our Days and visual work earned major acclaim for reflexive, collaborative aging ethnography; enduring methodological and public-humanities reputation.
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The etrog is a specific variety of citron fruit holding significant ritual importance in the Jewish religion. It is utilized during the week-long festival of Sukkot as one of the Four Species, alongside the lulav, hadass, and aravah. Rabbinical law imposes strict physical standards on the fruit, req...
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Religiously central citron with strict quality standards and cultural prestige; eating quality is secondary.
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