Barbara Myerhoff
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Barbara Myerhoff anthropologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology
USC Center for Visual Anthropology
The USC Center for Visual Anthropology is a center located at the University of Southern California. It is dedicated to the field of visual anthropology, incorporating visual modes of expression in the academic discipline of anthropology...

 at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

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Myerhoff http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18184 is best known for her work with the Jewish community in Venice, California. This was first documented in the 1976 ethnographic film Number Our Days
Number Our Days
Number Our Days is a 1976 short documentary film about a community of elderly Jews living in Venice, California. Directed by Lynne Littman, it won an Academy Award in 1977 for Documentary Short Subject.-Cast:* Harry Asimow - Himself...

, directed by Lynne Littman
Lynne Littman
Lynne Littman is an American director. She has frequently worked with anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff. She directed Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.-Awards:...

. She published the book Number Our Days in 1979. Number Our Days was performed as a play at the Mark Taper Forum in 1982.

Her next project, In Her Own Time was taken over by Lynne Littman
Lynne Littman
Lynne Littman is an American director. She has frequently worked with anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff. She directed Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.-Awards:...

 and Vikram Jayanti
Vikram Jayanti
Vikram Teja Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker responsible for a number of well known full-feature documentary films. Two of his films, for which he has production credits, have received Academy Awards for Best Full-Feature Documentary; the 1997 blockbuster When We Were Kings and 2005's Born Into...

when Myerhoff was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1985.

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