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Foreskin's Lament

Shalom Auslander

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

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Original Title:	Foreskin's Lament
ISBN:	1594489556 (ISBN13: 9781594489556)
Edition Language:	English

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Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find his way to a life where he didn't struggle against God daily.

Foreskin's Lament reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the "blessing bee" (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to an Orthodox-style reform school in Israel after he's caught shoplifting Union Bay jeans from the mall, and his fourteen mile hike to watch the New York Rangers play in Madison Square Garden without violating the Sabbath. Throughout, Auslander struggles to understand God and His complicated, often contradictory laws. He tries to negotiate with God and His representatives-a day of sin-free living for a day of indulgence, a blessing for each profanity. But ultimately, Shalom settles for a peaceful cease-fire, a standoff with God, and accepts the very slim remaining hope that his newborn son might live free of guilt, doubt, and struggle.

Auslander's combination of unrelenting humor and anger--one that draws comparisons to memoirists David Sedaris and Dave Eggers--renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, family, and community.

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Title	:	Foreskin's Lament
Author	:	Shalom Auslander
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	October 4th 2007 by Riverhead Hardcover (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Humor. Religion. Literature. Jewish

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I believe in god, Its been a real Problem for me -Shalom AuslanderI am certain Shalom Auslander was absent from his Talmud class the day his Rebbe taught over the sugya in Avoda Zora (17a) of Rabbi Elazar ben Dordaya. Actually from most accounts it seems as if Shalom was absent frequently from Yeshiva (or not grasping what was really taught) Either way Baruch Hashem, as we might not have this hilarious account of his pretty twisted view of Life, Orthodox Judaism and Hashem. This is a sad tale

Like probably most people who are reviewing this, my first encounter with Shalom Auslander was on This American Life. But the Auslander of TAL and the Auslander of his memoir are radically different people, even if the radio-Auslander is reading excerpts of the book-Auslander. Radio-Auslander can laugh at his excessively religious youth, and he's got 15 minutes of air time in between Ira Glass talking about the benefits of squarespace.com and Sarah Vowell reading a cloying musing in her cloying

Even though it took me a couple of weeks to get through this book (I've a bad tendency lately to pick up and put down books, letting them go unread for as much as a week before starting them up again), I found Foreskin's Lament an entertaining read, though a little repetitve. I definitely identify with the author, being brought up in the church (Southern Baptist/Methodist depending on the year), and wondering at the blatent contradictions and conflicts, yet being told that "God is great! God is

Auslander is a Jewish writer who grew up within the confines of a strict Orthodox upbringing; this book is the memoir of how that upbringing shaped the twisted relationship he currently has with God: one I would describe as hate-hate. Auslander has the neurotic mindset that orthodox religion makes no sense, and that if God does in fact exist, God is spiteful and mean and out to screw with everyone; and Auslander wants very much to write and say these nasty things about God, but believes that if

*** Spoiler Below (? Maybe)Shalom Auslander doesn't have a penis with foreskin; I don't have a penis period. An irrelevant difference. Soooooo much material in his memoir makes me say, "Shalom Auslander thinks my thoughts and/or I think his." When Auslander asks a female friend, an Orthodox Jew eager to discuss Reb Zalman and the Rambam, "Have you ever read Samuel Beckett?"(247), I hear my voice. Then when the friend inquires, "What did he write?" I can hear myself in Auslander's response:

The book synopsis made this book to me a rather typical and expected memoir. Dysfunctional family. Abusive, disciplinarian father. Unsupportive mother. Rebellious brother. Strict, stifling upbringing. Juvenile preoccupation with sex. Brush with law because of shoplifting. All in the flavor of religion and God.Am not familiar with Jewish customs and this book provided insight into their culture. I was surprised at how remarkably similar it is to Muslim practices.The theme of a vengeful God is to

4-5*s I listened to this years ago, but I still remember some of the funniest lines/observations today. Many people would call this kind of "funny" offensive, but I found it very amusing soooo funny(sorry, I am that sick). Still smiling- even now.