{"product_id":"going-out-with-knots-my-two-kaddish-years-with-hebrew-poetry-9780827615700","title":"Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured on Zibby Owens' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Most Anticipated Books 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e list\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, \u003ci\u003eGoing Out with Knots\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates author Wendy I. Zierler's literary and personal Jewish mourning journey in the aftermath of unremitting personal loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe begins with her story: the death of both her parents in one year; the challenges she faced as a woman saying Kaddish in an Orthodox synagogue; and her decision to teach a weekly class on modern Hebrew poems that address grief, prayer, and God wrestling. Each subsequent chapter delves into the works of a different modern Hebrew poet--Lea Goldberg, Avraham Ḥalfi, Yehuda Amichai, Rachel Morpurgo, Rachel Bluwstein, Ruhama Weiss, and Amir Gilboa--in the order in which she translated, interpreted, and taught their poems (many translated into English for the first time). Each poet, like Zierler, comes to writing deeply connected to Jewish tradition and yet at odds with it, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eGoing Out with Knots\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on how a woman living in a Modern Orthodox community can claim a place in the male-centered rituals that Jewish tradition prescribes for mourning, and how immersion in modern Hebrew poetry can respond deeply to both communal (COVID-19, October 7) as well as personal losses, offering a new form of theology and Torah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy I. Zierler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780827615700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy I. Zierler\u003c\/b\u003e is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eProoftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMovies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnd Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Hebrew Women's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThese Truths We Hold: Judaism in an Age of Truthiness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Wendy I. Zierler \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659113382045,"sku":"9780827615700","price":52.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_87705f05-d63e-47b9-8c5a-fc18ccf374cd.jpg?v=1771350502","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/going-out-with-knots-my-two-kaddish-years-with-hebrew-poetry-9780827615700","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}