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Kaddish.
by Leon Wieseltier
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375703624
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703621
- Seller
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About This Item
Vintage, 1998. SIGNED. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON ENDPAGE. MODERATE WEAR ON WHITE COVER, FAINT SMUDGE ON OUTER EDGE BUT NO MARKING IN TEXT. Description: When the author'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. He also explored the Kaddish's history and meaning. The book tells the story of that search.
Synopsis
Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award"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 ReviewChildren have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." Leon Wieseltier, a diligent but doubting son, recites the Jewish prayer of mourning at his father's grave, and then embarks on the traditional year of saying the kaddish daily.Wieseltier's highly acclaimed Kaddish is the spiritual and thoughtful journal of one of America's most brilliant intellectuals. Driven to explore th origins of the kaddish, from the ancient legend of a wayeard ghost to a 17th-century Ukranian pogrom, he offers as well a mourner's response to the questions of fate, freedom, and faith stirred up in death's wake. Lyric, learned, and deeply moving, Kaddish>/b> is suffused with love: a son's embracing of the traditon bequethed to him by his father, a scholar's savoring of its beauty, and a writer's revealing it, proudly unadorned, to the reader. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16858
- Title
- Kaddish.
- Author
- Leon Wieseltier
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- SIGNED
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375703624
- ISBN 13
- 9780375703621
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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