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Kaddish : women's voices

Title
Kaddish : women's voices / edited by Michal Smart ; conceived by Barbara Ashkenas.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Urim Publications, [2013]
  • ©2013

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TextUse in library BM670.K3 K33 2013Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Smart, Michal, 1965-
  • Ashkenas, Barbara.
Description
271 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Kaddish, Women's Voices explores what the recitation of the Jewish mourner's Kaddish prayer meant to different women who made a commitment to say it in Synagogue. It is a record of modern women searching for their place within an ancient Jewish tradition"--
Subject
  • Kaddish
  • Kaddisch
  • Jewish mourning customs
  • Women in Judaism
  • Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism
  • Judentum
  • Trauer
  • Frau
  • Jüdin
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Poems / Michal Smart -- One. My Final Gift / Hodie Kahn ; A Mother's Kaddish / Shelley Richman Cohen ; Loss for Words / Rachel Mesch ; Leaving Cochin / Fiona Hallegua -- Two. I Will Not Fail You Now / Pearl Tendler Mattenson ; You Can Do It, Mom / Karen Markowitz Michaels ; Blessed Be / Rebecca E. Starr ; Learning to Live Without / Debbie Yatzkan Jonas -- Three. Into the Void / Jennie Rosenfeld ; Choose Life: Kaddish after a Suicide / Laila Goodman ; Kaddish for My Sweet Son, Steven / Abby Ellison Kanarek ; Acknowledgment / Marlyn Bloch Jaffe ; Praise Him All His Angels / Deborah Fineblum -- Four. A Sacrifice of Time / Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum ; Whispers in the Dark / Ellen Copeland Buchine ; A Child of Old Age / Sara Wise Prager ; The Prayers of Other Hearts / Laura Sheinkopf ; El Malei Rachamim / Deb Kram -- Five. Fulsome Grieving / Vera Schwarcz ; Leaving a Stone / Leah Braunstein Levy ; Good Thing I'm Not Claustrophobic / Joni Nathanson ; Building Character / Rachel Cohen -- Six. Ascent to Praise / Nessa Rapoport ; Defying Death / Nechama Goldman Barash ; Don't You Have Any Brothers? / Meryl Greenwald Gordon ; Lifeline / Jeralyn Goldman ; Afterthoughts / Rachel Goldstein Jubas -- Seven. Heartache / Debra Shaffer Seeman ; Post-It Notes on My Siddur / Rochelle Barouh Senker ; My Kaddish Journey / Toba Weitz Goldberg ; I Wasn't Trying to Make a Statement / Esther Reed ; A Voluntary Mourner / Debra Luger -- Eight. Trying to Go Home / Geela R. R. Naiman ; Will the Place Comfort? / Anne Venze Sendor ; Go to the Jews / Deborah Greniman ; The Strength to Forgive / Michal Smart -- Nine. "Pray For Me" / Aviva Ephraim Maller ; Why I Did Not Say Kaddish / Shifra Aviva (Posner) Deren ; Visions of My Dad / Sandi Ehrlich Waldstreicher ; Incantatory Comfort / Amy Koplow -- Ten. Beneath My Father's Tallit / Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman ; Kaddishes Lost and Found / Joyce Solomon ; The Power of Women's Prayer / Paula Gantz ; God is Good / Barbara Becker ; The One to Light the Candles / Dina Roemer -- Eleven. A Child No Longer / Barbara Ashkenas ; Who Else? / Judith Schwimmer Hessing ; In Those Two Minutes / Suzanne Wolf ; Ten Plus One, Two, Three... / Chana Reifman Zweiter -- Twelve. Women and Kaddish: The Halachah / Mark Dratch ; One Kind Gesture / Daniel Cohen ; The Laws of Aveilut / David Walk ; Kaddish and Kabbalah / Penny Cohen ; A Chorus of Praise: Reflections on the Meaning of Kaddish / Michal Smart -- Mourner's Kaddish in Hebrew and English -- In Loving Memory.
ISBN
  • 9789655241501
  • 9655241505
LCCN
2013023087
OCLC
  • ocn847985946
  • 847985946
  • SCSB-1777915
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library