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Kaddish - Leon Wieseltier

English
2000-02-08
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A National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography that's "an astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile" (The New York Times Book Review).Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." Beside his fatherโ€™s grave, a diligent but doubtin ... Full description

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A National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography that's "an astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile" (The New York Times Book Review).Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." Beside his fatherโ€™s grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mournerโ€™s kaddish and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So begins Leon Wieseltierโ€™s National Jewish Book Awardโ€“winning autobiography, Kaddish, the spiritual journal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times daily for a year and driven, by ardor of inquiry, to explore its origins. Here is one manโ€™s urgent exploration of Jewish liturgy and law, from the 10th-century legend of a wayward ghost to the speculations of medieval scholars on the grief of God to the perplexities of a modern rabbi in the Kovno ghetto. Here too is a mournerโ€™s unmannered response to the questions of fate, freedom, and faith stirred in deathโ€™s wake. Lyric, learned, and deeply moving, Wieseltierโ€™s Kaddish is a narrative suffused with love: a sonโ€™s embracing the tradition bequeathed to him by his father, a scholarโ€™s savoring they beauty he was taught to uncover, and a writerโ€™s revealing it, proudly, unadorned, to the reader.

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Author Leon Wieseltier
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release year 2000
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9780375703621
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