Nathan Englander on 'Kaddish.com'

Nathan Englander joins me to discuss his new novel 'Kaddish.com.' Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses—imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father's soul safely to rest. But after a religious awakening, Larry realizes that he may have sacrificed too much.

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Nathan Englander on 'Kaddish.com' is an episode from Paraphrase by Stephen Fishbach.

This episode is 28:22 long.

This episode was published on Apr 3, 2019.

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