Shalom auslander biography of michaels and wife

Books , Featured , Interviews. As a yeshiva boy, Shalom Auslander showed such promise that his rabbis believed he would grow into a leader of the Jewish people. They proved poor talent scouts.

Shalom Auslander grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish home.

We ask hard questions. The Spanish should have kicked us out. Auslander remains in touch with this Jewish legacy of wise-cracking rebellion. And what might an otherwise reasonable American Jew do to preserve the myth of the departed diarist? Auslander and I spoke over Zoom. This book came from a question that I was trying to figure out in my own life.

I was forty-five and had been estranged from my family for a long time, so I wondered what I would do if I heard my mother had died. Would I go to the funeral or not? I wanted to see how someone else might deal with this question, and fiction is this great place where you can see what others would do. You create an analog of yourself, or analogs—there are twelve brothers and one sister in Mother For Dinner —and as you learn about them, you learn about yourself.

Controlled schizophrenia. But funny. Or anything else. I wanted a fictional group, with a fictional history and mythology and theology.