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Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir » (Reprint)

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Authors: Ari Goldman
ISBN-13: 9780805211313, ISBN-10: 0805211314
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: 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.

Book Synopsis

Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year 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.

The New York Times

In his earlier memoir, The Search for God at Harvard (1991), Goldman's anger at his parents is what self-help books call unresolved...In Living a Year of Kaddish, the earlier book's tight bud of anger blooms into melancholy. It is a dark rose.—Esther Schor

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