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	FT March 1999: Kaddish
		Wieseltier’s return is not just a return to traditional forms; it is also a return to the literary sources of the Jewish tradition, particularly as they pertain to his current kaddish practice.
		Wieseltier handles these sources with great skill; indeed, his felicitous translations of them and pointed comments on them alone would be well worth the price of the book.
		Wieseltier’s youthful departure is quintessentially modern, especially because it is a conscious first—generation rebellion.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9903/reviews/novak.html (1815 words)

	Majikthise : Dennett replies to Wieseltier
		Wieseltier, but his criticism of the nonsensical idea that 'evolutionary psychology', properly denoted by the reviewer as a kind of scientistic superstition, is a 'rational' explanation (and dismisal) of religion is correct.
		Wieseltier's review of "The Bell Curve" took a lot of heat from all sides because he was critical of those aspects of the book he could judge fairly, and silent on those aspects that were beyond his expertise.
		Wieseltier believes that the core claims of religion are propositions that possess truth value, and he probably thinks the most important of these is that God exists.
	majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2006/02/wieseltier_smea.html (5635 words)

	Amazon.fr : Kaddish: Livres en anglais: Leon Wieseltier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, is a mostly unobservant Jew whose grief compelled him to observe his religion's rituals of mourning, daily attending synagogue to recite the Kaddish (the traditional Jewish prayers of mourning).
		Wieseltier reports that through his study and practice of Kaddish he realized that the past is at the mercy of the present.
		And so the saga of the family is also the saga of the tradition." Wieseltier provides a work of history, philosophy and spiritual memoir where he deals with the meaning of freedom and the perplexity of tradition.
	www.amazon.fr /Kaddish-Leon-Wieseltier/dp/0330372378 (560 words)

	Without Gods: Wieseltier Archives
		Wieseltier, instead of arguing, as so many have for so long, that religious belief is the product of revelation or good sense, never disputes this point.
		And it is true that, when pressed, Hume seems to emit a vague deism not dissimilar to the vague deism to which Wieseltier himself seems to cling (rather desperately, it seems).
		But the point, which Wieseltier fails to mention, is that in Hume's day one was pressed to avow belief in a deity with an insistence and consequence of a different order from anything philosophers today might confront.
	www.futureofthebook.org /mitchellstephens/archives/wieseltier (1878 words)

	Leon Wieseltier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leon Wieseltier (b June 14, 1952) is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor.
		Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979-1982.
		Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Wieseltier (214 words)

	Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish
		Leon Wieseltier is a creature of the culture steeped in this tradition - he is literary editor of the Washington-based journal The New Republic - but is also unusually aware of that Hebrew mysticism, having studied it at Harvard.
		Wieseltier's aim is to look beyond the mirror, toward an older tradition.
		As a creature of this culture, Wieseltier is aware that part of his need to embrace the ritual of kaddish is that it saves him from having to improvise them, which would have probably infected his secular life and perhaps been diagnosed as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
	www.morose.fsnet.co.uk /reviews/kaddish.htm (1037 words)

	SerandEz: Leon Wieseltier
		Wieseltier is assuming as 'givens' that their religious beliefs have no place in the world; that there were human rights violations which the Israelis were guilty of, with no mention of the reverse; and that visions superseded law.
		Wieseltier's next paragraph focuses on his belief that the disengagement is correct, assuming it works.
		Wieseltier's conclusion seems to be, "Since everything went so smoothly, and the settlers did not fight, then the same can be done in the West Bank." This is idiocy.
	serandez.blogspot.com /2005/09/leon-wieseltier.html (2898 words)

	FT March 1999: Kaddish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wieseltier’s return is not just a return to traditional forms; it is also a return to the literary sources of the Jewish tradition, particularly as they pertain to his current kaddish practice.
		Wieseltier handles these sources with great skill; indeed, his felicitous translations of them and pointed comments on them alone would be well worth the price of the book.
		Wieseltier’s youthful departure is quintessentially modern, especially because it is a conscious first—generation rebellion.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9903/reviews/novak.html (1815 words)

	The Lippard Blog: Leon Wieseltier's negative review of Dennett's new book
		Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic, has written an strongly negative review of Daniel Dennett's new book, Breaking the Spell.
		Wieseltier maintains that religion is beyond the scope of scientific examination, and so takes issue with a key aspect of Dennett's project.
		Wieseltier assumes an 'obvious truth' that human reason is a faculty that exists apart from its biology, a la Descartes.
	lippard.blogspot.com /2006/02/leon-wieseltiers-negative-review-of.html (853 words)

	NPR : Interview: Leon Wieseltier Discusses Comparisons Being Drawn Between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian ...
		Wieseltier is addressing a rash of Holocaust references invoked over Palestinian violence against Israelis: An American Jewish writer warns of a second Holocaust.
		Leon Wieseltier's essay, Hitler is Dead, is subtitled On the Ethnic Panic of the Jews.
		WIESELTIER: I will tell you I don't think that Jewish culture generally, or American culture, is in any danger of forgetting the Holocaust.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2002/may/020521.siegel.html (1245 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Leon Wieseltier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wieseltier edits the book pages of The New Republic, which persistently reflect a supple intelligence -- even when the rest of the magazine loses both its sense of purpose and its nerve, as is now the case.
		Wieseltier's self-assigned task is to chase down one set of ancient symbols, those surrounding the mourner's prayer.
		Wieseltier's book is the wordy and self-indulgent but often appealing journal he kept during that period, as he studied the tradition he was enacting.
	www.robertfulford.com /Wieseltier.html (738 words)

	Leon Wieseltier, Ground Zero bully. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
		Captain Ron Voyage said Wieseltier had a point, it was "a bad time for Rabbit with smoked mozzarella." Several readers took particular exception to the use of the word "loam" by Wieseltier.
		Wieseltier's argument is a familiar one to anybody who has followed the decades-long debate about whether it is possible to write "about" (as opposed to merely record as accurately as possible) the Nazi genocide.
		It is unthinkable that Wieseltier, given his background and interests, did not have this in mind when he wrote (as foreign as it may seem to a public that is snapping up tickets to The Producers).
	www.slate.com /?id=2059240 (1245 words)

	Leon Wieseltier - Kaddisch - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Leon Wieseltier, 1952 in Brooklyn geboren, arbeitet als Literaturredakteur bei "The New Republic".
		Wieseltier scheint zufrieden, zu beschreiben, dass es ihn beruhigt.
		Wieseltier ist scheint`s zufrieden mit einer neuen Recherche-Obesession (woher kommt das Kaddisch) und der Beschreibung seiner neu entdeckten Treue zum Gebet.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/3746.html (649 words)

	Amazon.de: Kaddish: English Books: Leon Wieseltier,Theodore Bikel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish is a completely new kind of book.
		It is not quite philosophy, autobiography, history, or Midrash, but it blends all of these genres into a narrative of Wieseltier's grief during the year following his father's death.
		A moving and beautiful work, generated by mourning a loss: the diligent and doubting son investigating the memory of death.
	www.amazon.de /Kaddish-Leon-Wieseltier/dp/1574532928 (1712 words)

	Amazon.de: Kaddish: English Books: Leon Wieseltier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I agree with all the comments about narcissism, pomposity and the like becuase the author epitomizes those traits and others like them but in my opinion the book transcends its author's limitations and was utterly fascinating in its breadth and depth.
		Leon Wieseltier has created a singular work, exploring 2,000 years of Jewihs tradition and thought about death and mourning in the aftermath of his own father's death.
		The breadth of his knowlegde is amazing, and all the more so given that he is something of a non-believer.
	www.amazon.de /Kaddish-Leon-Wieseltier/dp/0375703624 (1754 words)

	The New York Observer's MondoWeiss: Be Like Leon (Wieseltier) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leon Wieseltier does a pretty good job of it in the last New Republic, in a forum on what to do in Iraq.
		There's some other stuff to nod your head to here, like the frank admissions that more troops wouldn't have made any difference, that the war has increased terrorism and emboldened terrorists, that it's been a great setback to the dreams of universalists in the Middle East.
		(A new key on Wieseltier's piano, universalism; though of course he particularistically dismisses the Palestinians.) But I admire Wieseltier's moral tone on this one.
	mondoweiss.observer.com /2006/12/be-like-leon-wieseltier.html (461 words)

	Leon Wieseltier
		Leon Wieseltier on the many outrages of The Passion of the Christ.
		Leon Wieseltier on one of 9/11's most haunting images.
		Leon Wieseltier: The unreality, and the necessity, of peace after martyrdom.
	www.tnr.com /showBio.mhtml?pid=41&sa=1 (336 words)

	Tingle Alley » Two letters: To Mr. Leon Wieseltier and Mr. Sam Tanenhaus
		Wieseltier there is no one responsible for this essay who appears to evince any interest in, any love for, or any understanding of the work of fiction.
		Wieseltier proves himself just as willing to indulge in sophistic, uncontextualized statements as he is when discussing books — but that’s another matter).
		Wieseltier writes, “All the professional manipulation of opinion notwithstanding, reality is still more powerful than its representations” — it is all to easy to read this as a statement of a man who would prefer to be commentating on politics (reality) than fiction (its representations).
	www.tinglealley.com /index.php?p=193 (2034 words)

	Even Steven (Leon Wieseltier answers Steven Spielberg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of TNR.
		Wieseltier is proud of his superior ability to deny reality.
		Leon Wieseltier was the first journalist to nail Spielberg over this film, and his review was indeed devastating.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1570545/posts (3948 words)

	Leon Wieseltier - Moviefone
		Leon Wieseltier Author Search Leon Wieseltier's Recent Articles.
		Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled...
		Leon Wieseltier - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Leon Wieseltier Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/leon-wieseltier/370613/main (91 words)

	Powell's Books - Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
		When Leon Wieseltier's father died in March 1996, he began to observe the rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going daily to the synagogue to recite the kaddish.
		Be-tween his prayers and his everyday responsibilities, he sought out ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish texts in pursuit of the kaddish's history and meaning.
		An extraordinary spiritual journal--a record of the inner life of one of America's most brilliant intellectuals during a year of mourning--"Kaddish" is a work of history, philosophy, and interior autobiography, of moral force and emotional power.
	www.powells.com /biblio?show=HARDCOVER:USED:0375403892:18.50 (438 words)

	Leon Wieseltier: Against Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As the literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier plays an important role in framing intellectual discussions in America.
		This book grew out of an essay originally published in The New Republic in 1995, and is now presented as a collection of 74 aphorisms.
		Leon Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn in 1952.
	www.wdny.com /Pages/lwagainst.html (155 words)

	Amazon.com: Kaddish: Books: Leon Wieseltier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This journal of the soul is a moving and beautiful work, generated by mourning a loss: the diligent and doubting son investigating the memory of death.
		May I be the first to rate this review useless, but not the last to praise Wieseltier's fine book.
		Wieseltier's book is meditative and beautiful, more like bedside reading (dip in a bit at a time) than a strict narrative.
	www.amazon.com /Kaddish-Leon-Wieseltier/dp/0375403892 (1894 words)

	Leon Wieseltier on Iraq. - Xbox 360 & Xbox Forums
		Leon stated the ongoing violence has nothing to do with the coalition troops.
		Leon's point was that, by removing the artificial ethnic and religious constraints provided by Saddam's dictatorship, the Iraqi people (if they can come to consider themselves in those terms, versus merely three indigenous groups) are now forced to face these issues for the first time in 30 years.
		The ongoing violence in Iraq is the result of three groups (four, with AQI) struggling to assert their role in a brand new government.
	forum.teamxbox.com /showthread.php?t=435586 (2175 words)

	Leon Wieseltier speaks at Annual Bayit Hadash Program - "Krakow, Poland" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leon Wieseltier, American writer, philosopher and literary editor of The New Republic, delivered the annual memorial lecture marking the13th anniversary of the opening of Center of Jewish Culture in Krakow on October 24th.
		Guests at the lecture included Jagiellonian University Philosophy and Jewish Studies students and professors and representatives from publishing houses, museums and the general public.
		One of Poland’s leading poets, Adam Zagajewski, a long time friend of Leon Wieseltier, introduced the lecture on Jewish Messianism.
	krakow.usconsulate.gov /krakow/Wieseltier.html (136 words)

	Beatrice.com: Leon Wieseltier, You Blockhead
		Let us make every effort to be fair to Leon Wieseltier as he faces the printed criticisms of NYTBR readers in this Sunday's edition, in what will likely prove the tail end of the scummy Checkpoint review controversy.
		Essentially by spitting in Jim Sleeper's face and telling him that believing Saddam had WMD was a good enough reason for the war as far as he was concerned, even if it turned out to be wrong.
		In fact, here's an open invitation to Leon Wieseltier to send in a list of subjects he deems unsuitable for tasteful literature, or publish such a list in the pages of The New Republic.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000727.html (471 words)

	Leon Wieseltier: Against Identity
		As the literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier plays an important role in framing intellectual discussions in America.
		This book grew out of an essay originally published in The New Republic in 1995, and is now presented as a collection of 74 aphorisms.
		Leon Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn in 1952.
	www.winterhouse.com /editions/Pages/lwagainst.html (155 words)

	Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier at Smarter.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"'Kaddish' is the result of Wieseltier's year of mourning [for his father's death].
		There are allusions to the author's father as strong and demanding, but he is not a memorable presence in the book.
		A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. "Leon Wieseltier's 'Kaddish' is an astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic benefit to readers, Jewish and gentile, who seek access to rabbinical tradition." Less
	www.smarter.com /kaddish---pd--ch-1--pi-930460.html (315 words)

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