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Is Love Stronger than Death?

By Abraham Socher | Spring 2017
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After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition

by Hillel Halkin

Princeton University Press, 232 pp., $27.95

Early on in this charming, frankly vulnerable, and deceptively deep book about death, Hillel Halkin tells the story of a discovery he made on the grounds of his property on the southern slope of the Carmel mountain range:

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About the Author

Abraham Socher is the editor of the Jewish Review of Books and professor of religion and Jewish studies at Oberlin College.

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[email protected] on April 29, 2017 at 11:57 am
Sounds like a great book
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