Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
by Shalom Auslander
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Book Reviews of Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
Book Review: Foreskins Lament, or The yeshiva bucher who strayed
Summary: 4 Stars
you know those moments in life that are frustratingly awful but then you can laugh when you look back on them? This is Foreskins Lament. Auslander has the ability to look back and see the humour and how great to share it with us.
The curcumcision Dillema is at the beginging and end of this book, and I feel it is more of a construct to make the book into a package and not the heart and story of the book.
I do not know how it is interpreted by those who are far from this story in real life. For me, having gone to a yeshiva, I really sympathized and related and laughed out loud.
I would love to see or hear Ausalnder on a panel togheter with the author of Living the Bible. What a panel that would be!
Book Review: Readers lament...
Summary: 4 Stars
Very few books can make me laugh out loud; this is one of them. Auslander manages to ridicule almost every aspect of Jewish rituals and observances while still maintaining the fear of G-d. The reader travels with the author through time as he encounters all sorts of personal challenges. Overbearing parents and teachers, conflicts with pornography, relationships, and finally, the pressure to circumsise his new born son. I thorougly enjoyed this book and I recommend it to everyone.Book Review: Hilarious, especially for those of us who can relate...
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend sent me this book and I was puzzled upon looking at the front and back cover. Once I started, I could not stop. Shalom, who can be heard on NPR, goes back and forth between feeling estranged and connected to Judasim. His humor and sarcasm make the book a quick and fun read, especially for those of us who were raised to feel guilt all of the time!
Do not pass this one up!
Book Review: interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this book very interesting. I think the questions the author asks are important--especially in regard to the unquestioned fantasies so many people hold of a tyrannical father-god. I'm sorry to read other reviews in which the author is so severely castigated, simply for expressing his own experience and view.Book Review: Do you like bitter whining?
Summary: 1 Stars
The book is a one trick pony by an embittered neurotic whiner that would be better served by putting it in a brief magazine article. It's not even amusing. But I'll give him credit that he has apparently found his niche.