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"This strange, enchanting, powerful, sometimes frustrating but always compelling masterpiece
works through the great themes of life and death intertwined with a complex fugue played out in three parts: Wieseltier's own encounter, as the year of mourning unfolded, with the inner life of the faith, the narrative of his family's sorrow, but, above all, how the sages and saints of Judaism through the ages reflected, in detail, about death and mourning. The result is a profound work not about Judaism but of Judaism: The inner life of the faith mediated through the sensibility of a wise, deeply learned, and reliable guide. I cannot point to another piece of writing in the English language that accomplishes within--and for--Judaism what Wieseltier has achieved."
--Jacob Neusner, National Review
"Wieseltier's Kaddish is an astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity;Its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile, who seek access to rabbinical tradition...I am certain I will read this book again"
--Harold Bloom, New York Times Book Review
"Groundbreaking in American letters...This is a narrative suffused with love: a man's love for the tradition bequeathed him by his father and shared with his mother and sister, a man's savoring of the beauty he was taught to uncover and his revealing it, proudly unadorned, to us"
--Nessa Rapoport, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"I have never read a book like this. No one has.It is something new in the world, and at the same time something very old. One feels this work--in its depth, idiosyncrasy, moral intellect, and stupendous range--to be an extension (dare I say it?) of the Talmud, and also of its modernist opposite. It seems hardly enough to say that Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish is beautiful, wise, amazing"
--Cynthia Ozick
"A brilliant book...Wieseltier has an aphoristic intelligence, and in a sense he is taking his place in a line of philosophers which runs from Pascal to Nietzsche and on to E. M. Cioran. As this
'diligent and doubting son' repeats phrases from the kaddish like a mantra, an ancient magnificence stirs in the text and his brokenheartedness is balanced by his exhilaration. 'He taught me to be here,' he writes of his father, 'and here I am'"
--Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker
"Extraordinary... An epigrammatic thinker of Pascalian concision and luminosity...a superb writer...It is a fine book, no, more: It may well be destined to become an American Jewish classic"
--Hillel Halkin, Forward
"Kaddish inspires a sense of awe at the sheer magnitude, depth and wisdom of a tradition that attempts to provide both a practical framework and a moral explanation for the deepest and most ungovernable human impulses"
-Susan Jacoby, Newsday
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