KADDISHEL
A Life Reborn
Rubinstein, Ezra Sherman, Moshe Trosman, and Behira Zakay for their valuable memories and lifelong friendship. Finally, I would like to thank Kitty Axelson-Berry for her in- valuable help in collecting, assembling, and reviewing all of this material, and for her sensitive handling of the emotions and chal- lenges of this project. She and her team helped make this book both a deeply personal story and a reference source on three of the historical periods through which I have lived. Also thanks to Fern Levitt who did an excellent and timely job preparing the text for publication, both in improving the text and in restructuring it to improve its flow. The title of my book, Kaddishel, is perhaps mysterious to those not familiar with Jewish customs. Kaddishel refers to a son who will, when one or both of his parents die, recite the prayer for the dead on their behalf; the prayer is said daily for eleven months and then every year on the yahrzeit (anniversary) of the parent’s death. As the only boy in our family, my mother used to call me her kad- dishel , the one who would say Kaddish for her. It was a term of en- dearment. I did not want to call my book Kaddishel at first because every time I hear that word I am reminded of my parents’ death, but I realized that it is a good, short title that might help people under- stand our traditions as well as what I went through. Aharon Golub
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