Beyond Survival, Building on the Hard Times--A POW's Inspiring Story
by Gerald Coffee
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Aiea, HI: Coffee Enterprises, Inc, 1990 Signed by author on half-title page in blue marker; clean and tight, appears unread. Some rubbing to the dust jacket. Appears unread.
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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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- Title
- Beyond Survival, Building on the Hard Times--A POW's Inspiring Story
- Author
- Gerald Coffee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Coffee Enterprises, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Aiea, HI
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Signed by Author, History, Vietnam, History, Memoir, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Autobiography, Memoirs;
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