Foreskins Lament

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330462016
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreskin's Lament written by Shalom Auslander and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn’t locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin’s Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. ‘Bracing and witty . . . Never, frankly, can there have been a more blasphemous book . . . Foreskin’s Lament somehow expresses the ideas of Richard Dawkins in the tone of David Sedaris. You can read it for the humour, you can read it as reportage into a secretive and bizarre world, you can read it as a personal tale of triumph over adversity, or you can just read it for the misery. It doesn’t really matter. But do read it’ William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday ‘One of the funniest books I’ve ever read, killingly so’ Hilary Spurling, Observer ‘Exceptional . . . very, very funny’ Time Out ‘Painfully poignant and hilariously noir’ Jewish Chronicle ‘By turns hilarious and devastating . . . Few books are laugh-out-loud funny. This one is’ Naomi Alderman, Sunday Times ‘America’s hottest, funniest, most controversial young Jewish memoirist . . . blackly hilarious, groundbreaking’ The Times

Author : Greg McGee
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 0864737998
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreskin's Lament written by Greg McGee and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most successful and well-known New Zealand plays is also compelling reading on the page. The power, humour and irony of the language all serve to illustrate a penetrating analysis of New Zealand society, as seen through the lens of sport.

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591400
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beware of God written by Shalom Auslander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future. Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217634
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreskin's Lament written by Shalom Auslander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot” (San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir. 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 the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath. 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 family.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton's Samson Agonistes written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231141513
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Dimensions written by B. Alan Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it. Rather, the entire natural world of mind and matter, subjects and objects, arises from a unitary dimension of reality. Wallace employs the Buddhist meditative practice of samatha to test his hypothesis, creating a kind of telescope to examine the space of the mind. He then proposes a more general theory in which the participatory nature of reality is envisioned as a self-excited circuit.In comparing these ideas to the Buddhist theory known as the Middle Way philosophy, Wallace explores further aspects of his "general theory of ontological relativity," which can be investigated through vipasyana, or insight, meditation. He then focuses on the theme of symmetry in quantum cosmology and the "problem of frozen time," relating these issues to the theory and practices of the Great Perfection school of Tibetan Buddhism. He concludes with a discussion of complementarity as it relates to science and religion.

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804141339
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shylock Is My Name written by Howard Jacobson and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism and revenge. While Strulovich struggles to reconcile himself to his daughter Beatrice's “betrayal” of her family and heritage—as she is carried away by the excitement of Manchester high society, and into the arms of a footballer notorious for giving a Nazi salute on the field—Shylock alternates grief for his beloved wife with rage against his own daughter's rejection of her Jewish upbringing. Culminating in a shocking twist on Shylock’s demand for the infamous pound of flesh, Jacobson’s insightful retelling examines contemporary, acutely relevant questions of Jewish identity while maintaining a poignant sympathy for its characters and a genuine spiritual kinship with its antecedent—a drama which Jacobson himself considers to be “the most troubling of Shakespeare’s plays for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish, also the most challenging.”

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789355397676
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antiquities of the Jews ; Book - VI written by Flavius Josephus and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - VI "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812253027
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thou Art the Man written by Ruth Mazo Karras and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a work of medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. It looks at the biblical King David, who has multiple paradigmatic identities in the Middle Ages: king, military leader, adulterous lover, sinner. It views David primarily from the perspective of medieval European Christian society but also from the medieval European Jewish viewpoint"--

Author : Alexander Heidel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226323985
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels written by Alexander Heidel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.