Kaddish

Author : Leon Wieseltier
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307557230

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Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier Pdf

A National Jewish Book Award-winning autobiography that's "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 Review). Children have obligations to their parents: the Talmud says "one must honor him in life and one must honor him in death." 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 National Jewish Book Award–winning autobiography, Kaddish, the spiritual journal of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times daily for a year and driven, by ardor of inquiry, to explore its origins. Here is one man’s urgent exploration of Jewish liturgy 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 they beauty he was taught to uncover, and a writer’s revealing it, proudly, unadorned, to the reader.

Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805212181

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Saying Kaddish by Anita Diamant Pdf

From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist—the definitive guide to Judaism’s end-of-life rituals, revised and updated for Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs. From caring for the dying to honoring the dead, Anita Diamant explains the Jewish practices that make mourning a loved one an opportunity to experience the full range of emotions—grief, anger, fear, guilt, relief—and take comfort in the idea that the memory of the deceased is bound up in our lives and actions. In Saying Kaddish you will find suggestions for conducting a funeral and for observing the shiva week, the shloshim month, the year of Kaddish, the annual yahrzeit, and the Yizkor service. There are also chapters on coping with particular losses—such as the death of a child and suicide—and on children as mourners, mourning non-Jewish loved ones, and the bereavement that accompanies miscarriage. Diamant also offers advice on how to apply traditional views of the sacredness of life to hospice and palliative care. Reflecting the ways that ancient rituals and customs have been adapted in light of contemporary wisdom and needs, she includes updated sections on taharah (preparation of the body for burial) and on using ritual immersion in a mikveh to mark the stages of bereavement. And, celebrating a Judaism that has become inclusive and welcoming. Diamant highlights rituals, prayers, and customs that will be meaningful to Jews-by-choice, Jews of color, and LGBTQ Jews. Concluding chapters discuss Jewish perspectives on writing a will, creating healthcare directives, making final arrangements, and composing an ethical will.

Author : Nathan Englander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434054

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kaddish.com by Nathan Englander Pdf

When his father dies, it falls to Larry—the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews—to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, he hires a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to say the prayer instead—a decision that will have profound, and very personal, repercussions. Irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise brilliantly captures the tensions between tradition and modernity.

Author : Michal Smart
Publisher : Urim Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789655241716

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Kaddish by Michal Smart Pdf

For centuries, Jews have turned to the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer upon experiencing a loss. This groundbreaking book explores what the recitation of Kaddish has meant specifically to women. Did they find the consolation, closure, and community they were seeking? How did saying Kaddish affect their relationships with God, with prayer, with the deceased, and with the living? With courage and generosity, 52 authors from around the world reflect upon their experiences of mourning. They share their relationships with the family members they lost and what it meant to move on; how they struggled to balance the competing demands of child rearing, work, and grief; what they learned about tradition and themselves; and the disappointments and particular challenges they confronted as women. The collection shares viewpoints from diverse perspectives and backgrounds and examines what it means to heal from loss and to honor memory in family relationships, both loving and fraught with pain. It is a precious record of women searching for their place within Jewish tradition and exploring the connections that make human life worthwhile.

Author : Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580236997

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Grief in Our Seasons by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky Pdf

Jewish tradition encourages study as a way of honoring the memory of those who are no longer among us. Grief in Our Seasons offers a comforting link between study and the tradition of saying Kaddish, helping those who are mourning to heal at their own pace and to cherish the memory of their loved ones each and every day. Each section of Grief in Our Seasons is devoted to a stage of mourning, providing daily readings from sacred Jewish texts and words of inspiration, comfort, and understanding. “Meditations Before Saying Kaddish” share the insights of others who have faced the challenges of mourning, and tell how they found solace during the process.

Author : James Howe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481417921

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Kaddish for Grandpa in Jesus' Name Amen by James Howe Pdf

"When I was new, my grandpa was very old." When Emily was two, her grandpa sang songs to her. When she was four, he read her stories. When Emily is five, her beloved grandfather dies. Her family decides to remember him in two ways: with a Christian funeral, because Grandpa was Christian, and a Jewish service, because Emily's family is Jewish. Both ways are beautiful. But Emily finds a way of remembering her grandpa that is just as beautiful and meaningful...and that's all her own. In this tender story for all families a young girl learns how to say goodbye to her grandpa without letting go of his memory.

Author : David Birnbuam,Martin S. Cohen
Publisher : New Paradigm Matrix
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kaddish by David Birnbuam,Martin S. Cohen Pdf

When Allen Ginsberg famously began his idiosyncratic eulogy of his mother by asking the reader to imagine him “up all night, talking, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles,” he did not pause to explain what exactly this thing called Kaddish was or why he would have been reading it aloud in his mother’s memory. Nor did he need to: there is no Jewish prayer better known to the non-Jewish world than Kaddish, and the concept of saying Kaddish “for” someone has entered the American lexicon of cultural phrases known to all and used freely without the need to translate or explain. Neither Imre Kertesz’s Kaddish for an Unborn Child nor Leon Wieseltier’s 1998 bestseller Kaddish provides a translation or explanation on the dustjacket, for example, the assumption being that anyone cultured enough to want to read either book—and surely not only Jewish readers—would know what the word means and what its use as the title implies about the book’s content. Nor did Leonard Bernstein seem to feel the need for any explanation when he named his third symphony “Kaddish,” and left it at that.

Author : Catherine Gong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781499083576

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George's Kaddish for Kovno and the Six Million by Catherine Gong Pdf

After interviewing a Holocaust survivor who took clandestine photographs of the Kovno Ghetto at great risk, a graduate student stumbles over a diary chronicling the same time and place during Nazi occupation. She soon discovers that photographer, George Kaddish is one of only two known Jewish photographers who recorded ghetto life, but most importantly she learns that hope and humanity still exist.

Author : Ari L. Goldman
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307487582

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Living a Year of Kaddish by Ari L. Goldman Pdf

This exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one—from the author of The Search for God at Harvard. "His candid, searching book ... breaks our heart." —The New York Times Book Review Ari Goldman describes how his year in mourning for his father affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of his community. Through the daily recitation of kaddish, Goldman discovered that he could connect with and honor his father and his mother in a way that he could not always do during their lifetimes. And in his daily synagogue attendance, he found his fellow worshipers to be an unexpected source of strength, wisdom, and comfort.

Author : Kaufmann Kohler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Consolation (Judaism)
ISBN : NLI:2644857-10

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The Kaddish by Kaufmann Kohler Pdf

Author : R. Gedalia Zweig
Publisher : L&v Publishing Company
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993797539

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Living Kaddish by R. Gedalia Zweig Pdf

Living Kaddish is a collection of stories of powerful, enduring love -- the love that the children feel for their parents and that parents feel for their children, the love of siblings and the love of spouses. And, perhaps most importantly, these stories represent the love that Jews for G-d and show how, by reciting His praise, we are mourning our loss of a mortal life, and elevating an immortal soul. Living Kaddish is essential for everyone saying Kaddish. It is an uplifting book to offer loved ones, and an inspiring book for anyone interested in this mitzvah. It also includes a practical guide to Kaddish, FAQs, and the Mourner's Kaddish in Hebrew with a complete English translation.

Author : Frank Stiffel
Publisher : Pushcart Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040122130

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Tale Of The Ring by Frank Stiffel Pdf

"This 10th-anniversary commemorative edition of Stiffel's ... memoir of Holocaust survival [at both Treblinka and Auschwitz] includes a new afterword by the author"--Publisher marketing.

Author : Imre Kertész
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426499

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Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész Pdf

The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier when she told him that she wanted one. The loss, longing and regret that haunt the years between those two “no”s give rise to one of the most eloquent meditations ever written on the Holocaust. As Kertesz’s narrator addresses the child he couldn’t bear to bring into the world he ushers readers into the labyrinth of his consciousness, dramatizing the paradoxes attendant on surviving the catastrophe of Auschwitz. Kaddish for the Unborn Child is a work of staggering power, lit by flashes of perverse wit and fueled by the energy of its wholly original voice. Translated by Tim Wilkinson

Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Enactments
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : 0857427482

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Kaddish by Jan Kott Pdf

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish theater into his works. In Kaddish, Jan Kott, an equally important figure in twentieth-century theater criticism, presents one of the most poignant descriptions of what might be called "the experience of Kantor." At the core of the book is a fundamental philosophical question: What can save the memory of Kantor's "Theatre of Death"--the Image, or the Word/Logos? Kott's biblical answer in Kaddish is that Kantor's theatre can be saved in its essence only by the Word, the Logos. This slim volume, Kott's final work, is a distilled meditation that casts light on how two of the most prominent figures in Western theater reflected on the philosophy of the stage.

Author : Larry Mayer
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815607199

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Who Will Say Kaddish? by Larry Mayer Pdf

Who Will Say Kaddish? is an exploration of the fragile resurgence of Jewish life and identity in post-Communist Poland. By the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to the second largest Jewish population in the world. By war's end, its Jews had been exterminated and their once-vibrant culture all but destroyed. In this book Larry Mayer and Gary Gelb, themselves descendants of Polish Jews, explore reports that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern Poland. What they discover are three generations of Jews-Holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren-with differing historical perspectives. As survivors' descendants learn of their hidden Jewish heritage through deathbed revelations, a compelling drama about personal identity unfolds. Mayer and Gelb chronicle a new chapter in the life of Poland's Jewish community as the present generation seeks to celebrate its members' recent freedom and to honor the rich traditions of their forebears. Through interviews, photography, reportage, and personal memoir Who Will Say Kaddish? creates a sociocultural portrait of the multilayered community of renewed Jewish life and tradition in Poland that has emerged since the fall of the Communist regime in 1989.