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Title:

In her own time [videorecording] / Act III Communications ; directed by Lynne Littman ; produced by Vikram Jayanti and Lynne Littman ; a production of the Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California in association with Embassy Television.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Direct Cinema Limited,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Hasidim--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
Jews--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social life and customs.
Myerhoff, Barbara G.
Cancer--Patients--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Jayanti, Vikram.
Littman, Lynne.
Myerhoff, Barbara G.
Center for Visual Anthropology.
Embassy Television (Firm)
Act III Communications.
Direct Cinema Ltd.

Notes:

Originally produced in 1985. Narrator, Lynne Littman. This disc is a recorded DVD and may not work in all DVD players or drives. "Based on the fieldwork of Dr. Barbara Myerhoff."

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.

ISBN:

1559747293
9781559747295

OCLC:

(OCoLC)153424957

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)