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The mystery of the Kaddish : the powerful story of Judaism's most moving prayer
- Title
- The mystery of the Kaddish : the powerful story of Judaism's most moving prayer / Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish.
- Author
- Charney, Leon H.
- Publication
- London : JR Books, 2008, c2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Maizlish, Shaʼul.
- Description
- xviii, 236 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A first appraisal -- Forever and to all eternity -- Kaddish melodies -- The eternal prayer -- Survival of the Kaddish notwithstanding the Holocaust (Sho'ah) -- A study of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdishev as a Chassidic force -- Chassidic customs and thoughts in memorializing the deceased -- Ancillary effects of the Kaddish -- Kaddish and women -- Chassidism, Kaddish, and Kotzk -- Prophets, mysticism, and Kaddish -- Yahrzeit and Yizkor: Christian origins? -- Judaism and the idea of death -- The psychological dynamic to death in Judaism -- Did the crusades give birth to the Kaddish for the common man vis-à-vis the elite? -- More on the crusades and Kaddish -- The Jew as a non-citizen and the church synod -- The church synods -- The crusades--suffering creates prayer -- The ghetto -- Blood libel and the massacre of Jews -- Black death & Jewish "Confession" -- The expulsion from Spain -- Kaddish and the concept of death -- The nature of death.
- Call Number
- *PKT 08-1956
- ISBN
- 9781906217402 (hbk.)
- 1906217408 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 258059482
- Author
- Charney, Leon H.
- Title
- The mystery of the Kaddish : the powerful story of Judaism's most moving prayer / Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish.
- Imprint
- London : JR Books, 2008, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Maizlish, Shaʼul.
- Research Call Number
- *PKT 08-1956