Living a Year of Kaddish
  • Published: 15 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780805211313
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

Living a Year of Kaddish

A Memoir

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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.
  • Published: 15 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780805211313
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Ari Goldman

Ari L. Goldman is the author of The Search for God at Harvard (a New York Times Notable Book) and Being Jewish. From 1973 to 1993 he was a reporter for The New York Times. Currently a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and the Jerusalem Post, and he lectures throughout the United States on both religion and journalism. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Praise for Living a Year of Kaddish

"In the last decade, Jewish mourning has been rendered in three vastly different journals of the Kaddish year: E. M. Broner's Mornings and Mourning, Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish, and now Goldman's own moving entry. This candid, searching book . . . breaks our heart." --The New York Times Book Review

"A profound and sophisticated examination of human relationships, particularly between a son and his parents." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Intimate and revealing . . . it touches the heart with its exploration of the complicated emotions that accompany the loss of a parent." --The Jerusalem Report

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