Editing Kaddish (section)

=== In literature and publications ===

(Alphabetical by author)

* In Shai Afsai's "The Kaddish" (2010), a poignant short story that could happen in almost any town with a small Jewish community, a group of elderly men trying to form a minyan in order to recite the Kaddish confront the differences between Judaism's denominations.<ref>Shai Afsai, "[https://jewishliteraryjournal.com/fiction/the-kaddish-shai-afsai/ The Kaddish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122103419/https://jewishliteraryjournal.com/fiction/the-kaddish-shai-afsai/ |date=2021-01-22 }}," first published in ''The Jerusalem Post'', Aug. 27, 2010.</ref>
* In the first chapter of [[Sholem Aleichem]]'s novel ''[[Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son]]'' the boy narrator, whose father just died, needs to quickly learn by heart the Kaddish - which he would have to recite - and struggling with the incomprehensible Aramaic words.
* ''Kaddish'' is a poem, divided into 21 sections and of almost 700 pages length, by German poet Paulus Böhmer. The first ten sections appeared in 2002, the remaining eleven in 2007. It celebrates the world, through mourning its demise.
* ''Kaddish in Dublin'' (1990) crime novel by John Brady where an Irish Jew is involved with a plot to subvert the Irish government.
* [[Nathan Englander]]'s third novel, ''Kaddish.com'' (2019), is about a grieving son who discovers a website that for a fee will match dead relatives with pious students who will recite the Mourner's Kaddish thrice daily on their behalf. In this manner, he outsources his obligation to recite kaddish for his father.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/books/review/nathan-englander-kaddish-com.html |title=Like a JDate for the dead |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 April 2019 |access-date=2019-10-28 |last1=Mirvis |first1=Tova |archive-date=2019-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028085521/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/books/review/nathan-englander-kaddish-com.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In [[Nathan Englander]]'s novel set during the Dirty Wars in Argentina, ''The Ministry of Special Cases'', the protagonist is an Argentinian Jew named Kaddish.
* In ''[[Torch Song Trilogy]]'' (1982), written by [[Harvey Fierstein]], the main character Arnold Beckoff says the Mourner's Kaddish for his murdered lover, Alan, much to the horror of his homophobic mother.
* In [[Frederick Forsyth]]'s novel ''[[The Odessa File]]'', a Jew who commits suicide in 1960s Germany requests in his diary/suicide note that someone say Kaddish for him in Israel. At the end of the novel, a [[Mossad]] agent involved in the plot, who comes into possession of the diary, fulfils the dead man's wish.
* ''[[Kaddish (poem)|Kaddish]]'' is one of the most celebrated poems by the [[Beat Generation|beat]] poet [[Allen Ginsberg]]. It appeared in ''Kaddish and Other Poems'', a collection he published in 1961. The poem was dedicated to his mother, Naomi Ginsberg (1894–1956).
* ''[[Yehiel De-Nur#Published works|Kaddish]]'', a novel by [[Yehiel De-Nur]], in which he explores actual, semi-fictional, and fictional stories relating to [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] struggles during [[the Holocaust]].
* ''[[Kaddish for an Unborn Child]]'' is a novel by the Hungarian Nobel Laureate [[Imre Kertész]].
* "Who Will Say Kaddish?: A Search for Jewish Identity in Contemporary Poland," text by Larry N Mayer with photographs by Gary Gelb (Syracuse University Press, 2002)
* In the September 20, 1998 Nickolodeon's ''Rugrats'' comic strip, the character Grandpa Boris recites the Mourner's Kaddish in the synagogue. This particular strip led to controversy with the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name="Goldberg">{{cite journal|last=Goldberg|first=Denny|date=January–February 1999|title=The ADL vs. Superman|journal=Tikkun|location=Berkeley, CA|volume=14|issue=1|pages=5|url=http://www.tikkun.org/article.php?story=jan1999_goldberg|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416014214/http://www.tikkun.org/article.php?story=jan1999_goldberg|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2013|access-date=29 May 2011}}</ref>
* The Mystery of Kaddish. Rav "DovBer Pinson". Explains and explores the Kabbalistic and deeper meaning of the Kaddish.
* In [[Philip Roth]]'s novel ''[[The Human Stain]]'', the narrator states that the Mourner's Kaddish signifies that "a Jew is dead. Another Jew is dead. As though death were not a consequence of life but a consequence of having been a Jew."
* “Kaddish” is the penultimate and longest piece in poet Sam Sax's [[Chapbook#Modern chapbooks|chapbook]] ''STRAIGHT'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wintertangerine.com/5-reasons-to-read-sam-sax |title=Five Reasons to Read: STRAIGHT, by sam sax |publisher=www.wintertangerine.com |access-date=2019-10-30 |archive-date=2019-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030112942/http://www.wintertangerine.com/5-reasons-to-read-sam-sax |url-status=live }}</ref> in which he tells the story of the death of the speaker's first love due to an overdose, following narratives of the speaker's own addiction. In August 2016, Sax performed this poem at the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://buttonpoetry.com/tag/rustbelt-2016/ |title=rustbelt 2016 - Button Poetry |date=24 August 2016 |publisher=buttonpoetry.com |access-date=2019-10-30 |archive-date=2019-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030112939/https://buttonpoetry.com/tag/rustbelt-2016/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Zadie Smith]]'s novel, ''[[The Autograph Man]]'', revolves around Alex-Li Tandem, a dealer in autograph memorabilia whose father's [[Bereavement in Judaism#Yahrtzeit.2C Nahala|Yahrzeit]] is approaching. The epilogue of the novel features a scene in which Alex-Li recites Kaddish with a minyan.
* Several references to the Mourner's Kaddish are made in ''[[Night (memoir)|Night]]'' by [[Elie Wiesel]]. Though the prayer is never directly said, references to it are common, including to times when it is customarily recited, but omitted.
* Leon Wieseltier's ''Kaddish'' (1998) is a book length hybrid of memoirs (of the author's year of mourning after the death of his father), history, historiography and philosophical reflection, all centered on the mourner's Kaddish.