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Saturday, August 5 • 5:15pm - 6:15pm
Two Kaddishes and a Ghost Story

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Many people feel passionately committed to saying Mourners’ Kaddish---but how did the practice start? We’ll look at the origin of Kaddish and how it became associated with mourners, using texts and a mediaeval ghost story to investigate the prayer’s surprising history.

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Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Lindsey studied archaeology at Cambridge and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed a PhD at University College London on the religious lives of Orthodox Jewish women, which she’s currently turning into a book. She is a Teaching Fellow at London School of Jewish Studies... Read More →


Saturday August 5, 2017 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Room 7

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