Wieseltier, Leon Kaddish ISBN 13: 9780375403897

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As he prepares to observe the Jewish rituals of the traditional year of mourning in honor of his late father, the author reflects on the history and meaning of the Kaddish, his family's odyssey through grief, life in his synagogue, and the meaning of faith and tradition. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish is a completely new kind of book. It is not quite philosophy, autobiography, history, or Midrash, but it blends all of these genres into a narrative of Wieseltier's grief during the year following his father's death. Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, is a mostly unobservant Jew whose grief compelled him to observe his religion's rituals of mourning, daily attending synagogue to recite the Kaddish (the traditional Jewish prayers of mourning). He also delved deeply into a vast range of texts describing the history and spiritual significance of these prayers. And he wrote incessantly, describing with force and clarity the process of bringing his mind and heart to bear on the grief that consumed him. Perhaps the best way of describing this moving, illuminating, hopeful, awe-filled book is to quote a stray line from the first page of the book's first chapter: "Out of tears, thoughts." --Michael Joseph Gross, Amazon.com
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"Extraordinary.... [Kaddish] is a fine book, no, more: It may well be destined to become an American Jewish classic." --Forward

"Read this extraordinary book and you will be both intellectually enriched and deeply moved.... [Wieseltier's] Kaddish is not only for his father; it is for all fathers for whom no kaddish has been said." --Elie Wiesel

"An extended meditation on life and death, faith and doubt, freedom and responsibility, modernity and tradition, fathers and sons." --The Washington Post Book World

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  • PublisherRandom House Inc
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0375403892
  • ISBN 13 9780375403897
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages599
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