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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smart, Michal, 1965- editor.

Ashkenas, Barbara, creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaddish.

Jewish mourning customs.

Women in Judaism.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Urim Publications, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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:

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface - Barbara Ashkenas; Introduction - Michal Smart; Acknowledgments; 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; 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) DerenVisions 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; Glossary; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

965-524-173-4

OCLC:

890072178