Shalom Auslander
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Shalom Auslander is an American, Jewish author and essayist, who grew up in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Monsey, New York, where he describes himself as having been "raised like a veal".[1][2]
Auslander has published a collection of short stories, Beware of God (March 2006) and a memoir, Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir (October 2007).[3] His work, often confronting his Orthodox Jewish background, has been featured on National Public Radio's This American Life and in The New Yorker. He was a finalist for the 2003-2004 Koret Jewish Book Award for "Young Writer on Jewish Themes."[4]
Auslander's uncle, his mother's brother, is Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm the Chancellor of Yeshiva University.
Auslander grew up in Monsey, and attended high school at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in Manhattan.[5]. He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, and currently resides in Woodstock, New York.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Shalom Auslander, Voicing a Comic 'Lament', Fresh Air, October 8, 2007. Accessed October 9, 2007.
- ^ Auslander, Shalom. “Foreskin’s Lament”, The New York Times, September 28, 2007. Accessed October 9, 2007.
- ^ Reese, Jennifer. "Book Review: Foreskin's Lament (2007)", Entertainment Weekly. Accessed October 9, 2007.
- ^ Koret Foundation Press Release
- ^ Brawarsky, Sandee. "An Orthodox 'cast-off' holds God accountable", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles , October 19, 2007. Accessed February 14, 2008. "By the time he was in high school, the Manhattan Talmudic Academy, he was shoplifting the kinds of expensive clothing his classmates wore, smoking dope and skipping classes to go to museums, bookstores and porn shops."
- ^ McGrath, Charles. "Shalom Auslander: An Orthodox Jewish outsider grapples with his past", International Herald Tribune, October 3, 2007. Accessed October 9, 2007.
