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Living with our dead : on loss and consolation

Living with our dead : on loss and consolation

Horvilleur, Delphine, author.
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"In this moving book by one of France's few female rabbis and leader of the country's Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and consolation, collected during the years she has spent caring for the dying and their loved ones. From Elsa Cayat, the psychologist and Charlie Hebdo columnist killed in the 2015 terrorist attack, to Simone Veil and Marceline Loridan, "the girls of Birkenau"; from Israeli...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Bereavement Religious aspects Judaism
Death Religious aspects Judaism
Life change events Religious aspects Judaism
Resilience (Personality trait) Religious aspects Judaism
Suffering Religious aspects Judaism
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ISBN:
9781609457952
1609457951
Description:
151 pages ; 22 cm
Other Title:
Vivre avec nos morts. English
Notes:
Original title: Vivre avec nos morts
Contents:
Azrael : life and death in one hand
Elsa : in the house of the living
Marc : ghost clothes
Sarah and Sarah : the basket of generations
Marceline and Simone : on Judgement Day
Isaac's brother : the ultimate question
Ariane : almost me
Miriam : the world to come
Moses : the man who didn't want to die
Israel : blessed is he who revives the dead
Edgar : am I my uncle's keeper?
Control Number:
3312133
Other Authors:
Appignanesi, Lisa, translator
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