· Foreskin’s Lament reveals Auslander’s “painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious” youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox Jewish community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. His combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith and www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group. Auslander has published a collection of short stories, Beware of God and a memoir, Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir. His work, often confronting his Orthodox Jewish background, has been featured on Public Radio International's This American Life and in The New Yorker/5. The funniest guest at Jewish Book Week Have a look at this preview of Shalom Auslander's new memoir, 'Foreskin's Lament.'.
Shalom Auslander, the author of "Foreskin's Lament," believes in a God who is not pleased when someone writes an angry and very funny book about leaving the Orthodox Jewish community. Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir is a book by Shalom Auslander. The book chronicles his upbringing as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and his efforts to break free from it. Portions of the book have been featured in various media, including the PRI program This American Life. Critical reception. Now Shalom Auslander has entered the ring, flying off the ropes, pro-wrestling style, with his memoir, "Foreskin's Lament," a no-holds-barred affront to the G-d whose name is never uttered.
In the end, Foreskin’s Lament is as much an exorcism as a memoir, a big middle-finger-in-the-air to the man upstairs. Throughout the book, Auslander documents his struggle with writing something so blasphemous that it led to countless drafts dragged to the trash and deleted forever when the fear of punishment became too much to bear. Shalom Auslander: Foreskin’s Lament Shalom Auslander came recommended to me for his first book, a collection of stories called Beware of God, but it wasn’t until I was amused by a column he wrote for the Guardian newspaper that I realised I would like to read a book by him. Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir is a book by Shalom Auslander. The book chronicles his upbringing as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and his efforts to break free from it. Portions of the book have been featured in various media, including the PRI program This American Life. Critical reception.
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