{"product_id":"kaddish-9780375703621","title":"Kaddish","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildren 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, \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLEON WIESELTIER was born in Brooklyn in 1952. He is the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published several books, including \u003ci\u003eA Passion for Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award. He currently\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elives in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410798350610,"sku":"9780375703621","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86ce135e-0b74-4a3b-b842-907340b6ff58.jpg?v=1729307544","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kaddish-9780375703621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}