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Kaddish
by Wieseltier, Leon
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375403892
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403897
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Large, thick, sturdy softcover, white wrappers with black lettering, 585 pages. Sheet with title and author stapled inside front cover, Four-line stamp of Anastasia Maxwell Library at Unitarian church typed on first front end paper. Creased at top front tip, tiny surface tear at bottom front left and spine top left edge, also spine bottom edge. Near Very Good.
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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- Seller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 38058
- Title
- Kaddish
- Author
- Wieseltier, Leon
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375403892
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403897
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- JUDAISM LITURGY MOURNING CUSTOMS UNCORRECTED PROOF RELIGION
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Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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