Foreword / Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. -- Introduction: modernity and the Jewish way of death. -- Prelude: before modernity. From the Shulhan Aruk / tr. by Chaim N. Denburg. -- The deaths of the Hasidic masters (from the Histalkut Hanefesh) / tr. by Samuel H. Dresner. -- pt. 1. Two modern dilemmas and two responses. The death of my father / Elie Wiesel. -- Death in the nuclear age / Hans J. Morgenthau. -- The Lord was his / Deborah Lipstadt. -- Death as homecomming / Abraham J. Heschel. -- pt. 2. The Halakhah and its insights. The Halakhah of the first day / Joseph B. Soloveitchik. -- Death as estrangement: the Halakhah of mourning / Emanuel Feldman. -- The psychological wisdom of the law / Audrey Gordon. -- pt. 3. Some ultimate questions. The right to kill? / Hayim Greenberg. -- The right to die? / Daniel Jeremy Silver. -- Life and death as partners / Abraham Kaplan. -- To hold with open arms / Milton Steinberg. -- Conversation with a dying man / Hayim Greenberg.
pt. 4. Some personal encounters. Death be proud / Michael Braude. -- My father "moved" / Max Lerner. -- Death in Jerusalem / Jacob Neusner. -- The meaning of the Kaddish / Leo Jung. -- We do not stand alone / Morris Adler. -- The fraternity of mourners / Joseph Zashin. -- The minyan is a community / Eugene J. Lipman. -- Kaddish in many places / Seymour J. Cohen. -- To my wife and children / W.L.A. -- Epilogue: to life!
