{"product_id":"books-kaddish-by-leon-wieseltier","title":"Kaddish","description":"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, \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673341157649,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780375703621.jpg?v=1781525059","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-kaddish-by-leon-wieseltier","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}