About this title: When Leon Wieseltier's father died in 1996, he began to observe the rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going daily to the synagogue to recite the Kaddish. This is the story of Wieseltier's search for an understanding of the Kaddish.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375403897ISBN:0375403892
Description: Good in Good jacket. Spine cocked. Light soiling to jacket. Front free end paper creased. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: Abridged.
Binding: Audiobook cassette
Publisher: Audio Literature
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781574532920ISBN:1574532928
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-Library book-on-tape with stickers and stampings. Clamshell has some typical wear. 4 cassettes. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Near Fine. 0375703624. Vintage; 1st Printing thus; 2000; 588 pages in wraps. Bright & crisp, hint of wear at one corner tip of cover. Interior pristine.; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375403897ISBN:0375403892
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Edition, stated. There are a few ex-library markings, but the book has been well cleaned and cared for. A "work of history, philosophy, and interior autobiography, of moral force and emotional power. " (dust flap) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000-02-08
ISBN-13:9780375703621ISBN:0375703624
Description: Very Good. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Binding is tight and square. Cover has very small blue stain by bottom edge. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375703621ISBN:0375703624
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st Ed. so stated, 1st Printing, Trade PB, NF, 588 pp., 1" crease at front bottom corner. When his father died in 1996, Wieseltier began to observe the Jewish rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going three times daily to synagogue to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. Between the prayers and his daily work as literary editor of the New Republic, he sought out ancient, medieval and modern Jewish texts in an effort to understand the history and ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375703621ISBN:0375703624
Description: New. New softcover with 588 pages. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Slightly bent from storage. The spiritual journey of a man commanded by Jewish law to recite a prayer three times daily... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780330372282ISBN:0330372289
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780330372282ISBN:0330372289
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780330372282ISBN:0330372289
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 585pp. Aknowledgements. Paperback in very good condition, gift inscription on fep. 'A profound quest for the origins of the Kaddish prayer' read more
Description: New. 0375403892 as NEW ~ Never Read Hardcover with Dust Jacket ~ several light stains to Jacket, perhaps very light wear to edges ~ all books carefully examined & well packaged. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780330372374ISBN:0330372378
Description: Very Good in Very Good. jacket. First Edition. Minor bumping to edges and extremities. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
Edition: First edition. stated 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780375403897ISBN:0375403892
Description: New in new dust jacket. bright clean, appears unread, dj bright clean as new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 588 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is a good, honest book about faith. I haven't read many things I could describe that way. Don't read it if you are in mourning but do read it if you have god on your mind."
"This was a wonderful book that goes in depth on the rabbinic commentary and exegesis of the mourner's prayer, the Kaddish. Much Talmudic speculation. At times the obsessive nit-picking of seemingly irrelevant and unimportant points of the law got a little tedious, but overall, this was a strong introduction to Talmudic midrash wrapped up in a secular Jew's ponderously intellectual year of mourning."
"I wanted to like this book more. And it's not for the author's integrity, but it was truly complicated and extremely dense. I picked it up shortly after my own dad died, seeing it at Ollson's just as it came out. Perhaps another try is warranted and perhaps, too, I am in a different state of mind now for appreciating it theme."
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