Kaddish : women's voices / edited by Michal Smart ; conceived by Barbara Ashkenas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smart, Michal, 1965- editor.

Ashkenas, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaddish.

Jewish mourning customs.

Women in Judaism.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

271 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Urim Publications, [2013]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Tenstein Levy ; 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

National Jewish Book Awards - Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice, Winner, 2013

ISBN:

9789655241501

9655241505

OCLC:

847985946