Kaddish

Leon Wieseltier

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ISBN: 9781743294048

Format: Ebook

Pub Date: 01/07/2000

Category: Biography: General

Imprint: Picador

Price: $12.99

When Leon Wieseltier'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. Between his prayers and his everyday responsibilities, he sought out ancient, medieval and modern Jewish texts in pursuit of the Kaddish's history and meaning. And every day he studied, translated and wrote his own reflections on the obscure texts that he found, punctuating his journal with stories about life in his synagogue and his family's progress through grief. In reflecting upon the fate of his father and of his people, he wrestles with problems of loss and faith, the meaning of tradition, freedom and determinism, and the perplexity of rational religion.

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Leon Wieseltier was born in New York, in 1952. He is the author of Nuclear War Nuclear Peace and Against Identity. He is also the literary editor of The New Republic.

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