Living with Our Dead is a deeply humanitarian, universal, and hopeful book. It is a hymn to life, memory, love, and the comforting tales that console, support, and inspire us.

A crucial, powerful reflection on our relationship with death. A challenge to accept vulnerability and loss as essential and enriching elements of life.

Delphine Horvilleur, the most prominent female rabbi and leading intellectual in France, addresses death and loss with compassion, intelligence, and humor, rejecting the modern trend to push death out of our thoughts and speech, while encouraging us to embrace it as a fundamental aspect of life.

We all live with ghosts, those of our personal, family, or collective history, those of the nations we were born into, the cultures that host us, the stories that have been told or silenced to us, and sometimes the languages we speak. Sacred stories open a passage between the living and the dead. The role of the storyteller is to stand at the door to ensure it remains open and allow everyone to reconcile with their ghosts…

Delphine Horvilleur