Appropriating Anne Frank

By Danielle Berrin
Published on April 11, 2012

Shalom Auslander’s ‘Hope: A Tragedy’

Published on February 3, 2012

Shalom Auslander's novel, "Hope: A Tragedy" is a strange and disturbing story about a man named Kugel who moves to a small town in upstate New York with his wife and child and his dying mother, who is utterly convinced she has spent time in a concentration camp being tortured by Nazis.

Shalom Auslander is my failure

By Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg
Published on November 8, 2007

This doesn't answer my questions. It doesn't staunch my tears. I don't sleep better. I don't justify terrible things when they happen to others, and I don't know why they don't happen to me. But I know that just as surely as there is inexplicable evil in the world, there is inexplicable good, as well. It's something to put on the other side of the scale, something to attribute to a good God.

Books: A heretic with fries on the side

By David Kaufmann
Published on October 4, 2007

Consider, then, Shalom Auslander. In his corrosively funny memoir, "Foreskin's Lament," he claims he is a foreskin: singled out, cut off and cast forth. In reality, he is something much more Jewish, almost essentially so. He's an apikores, a heretic.

Beware of Formerly Observant Writers

By Amy Klein
Published on November 3, 2005

In Shalom Auslander's recent collection of short stories, "Beware of God," God appears as many, many things, except for the Almighty, All-Knowing, Omniscient powerful Being He has traditionally been for the last however many-thousand years (depending on which religion you ask).