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    Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir

    By Ari L. Goldman

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 17, 2010
    ISBN9780307487582
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    Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir
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    Ari L. Goldman

    ARI L. GOLDMAN, one of the nation's leading religion journalists, was a reporter for The New York Times for twenty years. He left the Times in 1993 to teach journalism at Columbia University, where he has trained a new generation of religion writers. Professor Goldman was educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia, and Harvard. He is the author of the bestselling memoir The Search for God at Harvard and the widely acclaimed Living a Year of Kaddish. Goldman has been a Fulbright Professor in Israel and a Skirball Fellow at Oxford University in England. He lives in New York with his wife and their three children.

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    • 5/5
      Ari Goldman is an very good writer. This book intermingles the themes of Jewish ritual and mourning for a parent. I remembering enjoying it the first time I read it. This time, just over a year since my father's death, it went deeper.