{"product_id":"0375703624-kaddish","title":"Kaddish","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChildren 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWieseltier's highly acclaimed \u003cb\u003eKaddish\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003eKaddish\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJudaism\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Judaism\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":49078956064958,"sku":"0375703624-3","price":13.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/519MzWyvREL.jpg?v=1789760408","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0375703624-kaddish","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}