Kaddish
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0330372378
ISBN 13
9780330372374
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Picador, Australia
Pages
608
Subject
Jewish mourning customs. ; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Liturgy. ;
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Abstract
When Leon Wieseltier's father died in March 1996, he began to observe the rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going daily to the synagogue to recite the kaddish. Between his prayers and his everyday responsibilities, he sought out ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish texts in pursuit of the kaddish's history and meaning. And every day he studied, translated, and wrote his own reflections on the obscure texts that he found, punctuating his journal with stories about life in his synagogue and about his family's progress through grief.
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