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Kaddish (Paperback, New edition)
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Kaddish (Paperback, New edition)
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Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic, tracks his
family's cultural traditions through this dense and philosophical
tract on the subject of the Kaddish - the Jewish mourner's prayer.
When Wieseltier's father dies, he says the prayer three times
daily, as a duty. But he does not realize is the effect this will
have on him. 'I was struck almost immediately by the poverty of my
knowledge about the ritual that I was performing with such
unexpected fidelity. And it was not long before I understood that I
would not succeed in insulating the rest of my existence from the
impact of this obscure and arduous practice. The symbols were
seeping into everything. A season of sorrow became a season of
soul-renovation.' Delving deep into Jewish heritage and belief,
Wieseltier presents a reasoned, occasionally poetic reflection of
what his religion - and his father - have meant to him. (Kirkus UK)
When Leon Wieseltier's father died in 1996, he began to observe the
rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going daily to the
synagogue to recite the Kaddish. This is the story of Wieseltier's
search for an understanding of the Kaddish.
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