Kaddish Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Leon Wieseltier
An extraordinary spiritual journal: a record of the inner life of one of America's most brilliant intellectuals during a year of mourning. "Kaddish" is a work of history, philosophy, and interior autobiography, of moral force and emotional power.
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Beside his father's grave, a diligent but doubting son begins the mourner's kaddish, and realizes he needs to know more about the prayer issuing from his lips. So begins Leon Wieseltier's highly acclaimend Kaddish, the spiritual journal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times daily for a year and driven, by the ardor of inquiry, to explore its origins. Here is one man's urgent exploration of Jewish lituragy 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 mourner's unmannered response to the questions of fate, freedom, and faith stirred in death's wake. Lyric, learned, and deeply moving, wieseltier's Kaddish is a narrative suffused with love: a son's embracing the tradition bequeathed to him by his father, a scholar's savoring the beauty he was taught to uncover, and a writer's revealing it, proudly unadorned, to the reader.
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- Title Kaddish
- Author Leon Wieseltier
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Publication date 2000-02-08
- ISBN 9780375703621 / 0375703624
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.22 x 0.99 in (20.37 x 13.26 x 2.51 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Category Religion - Judaism
- Library of Congress subjects Jewish mourning customs, Judaism - Liturgy
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98015881
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.445
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- New York Times, 02/06/2000, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 48
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