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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir is a book by Shalom Auslander. The book chronicles his upbringing as an ultra-Orthodox Jew , and his efforts to break free from it. Portions of the book have been featured in various media, including the PRI program This American Life .
The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival is a World War II memoir by Shalom Yoran, a Holocaust survivor and a former Jewish partisan.It was written in the late 1940s, shortly after the war, but only published in 1996 after the author rediscovered his manuscript (written in Polish) and dictated it in Hebrew for translation into English.
Shalom (Seymour) Freedman (born June 17, 1942) is an American-Israeli writer, thinker, and poet. As a Jewish writer, his best-known work consists of conversations with thinkers and spiritual leaders centering on the concept of Avodat Hashem or service of God.
Shalom: שָׁלוֹם Hello, goodbye, peace Hebrew A Hebrew greeting, based on the root for "completeness". Literally meaning "peace", shalom is used for both hello and goodbye. [6] A cognate with the Arabic-language salaam. Shalom aleichem: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם Peace be upon you [ʃaˈlom ʔaleˈχem] Hebrew
Shalom Auslander (born 1970) is an American novelist, memoirist, and essayist. He grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Monsey, New York, where he describes himself as having been "raised like a veal". [1] [2] His writing style is notable for its existentialist themes, biting satire and black humor.
Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם šālōm) is a Hebrew word meaning peace and can be used idiomatically to mean hello. [1] [2]As it does in English, [citation needed] it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or between two countries), or to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals.
Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht (Hebrew: שלום שכנא מפראהביטש, romanized: Shalom Shachna m'Prhobisht), also known as Rabbi Sholom the Great (Yiddish: דער גרויסער רבי שלום, romanized: Der Groyser Rebbe Shalom) (1769 – 1802) [1] was a Ukrainian rabbi and father of Rabbi Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhin.
Shlomo Elyashiv (Eliashov) (January 5, 1841 [12 Tevet 5602] - March 13, 1926 [27 Adar, 5676]) (Hebrew: שלמה בן חיים חייקל אלישיב), also known as the Leshem or Ba'al HaLeshem, was a famous kabbalist, who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania, and later moved to the Land of Israel.