A diary that chronicles one man's experience of death, faith and doubt, Kaddish discusses the obligations of children of deceased parents. Leon Wieseltier describes the positive effects that reciting the Kaddish, a prayer said daily for a year after the death of a parent, had on his life. Wieseltier, described as a brilliant intellectual, also describes the origins of the Kaddish from its roots in an ancient legend about a ghost to the Ukrainian pogroms in the 17th century. | Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier, Paperback | Indigo Chapters