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?
Summary:
"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 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995, to Myriam, a New Yorker obsessed with planning her own funeral, to the author friend's Ariane and her struggle with terminal illness. Horvilleur writes about public figures and ordinary people alike, describing their encounters with death and dying with intelligence, humor, and compassion. Rejecting the contemporary tendency to banish death from our thoughts and discourse, she encourages us to embrace its presence as a fundamental part of life"-- Provided by publisher.
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