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The ‘Feh’ is Coming From Inside the House

JL;DR SUMMARY In his latest memoir, "Feh," Shalom Auslander revisits his Haredi upbringing to explore the deep-seated misanthropy and self-loathing he terms "feh." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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MemoirCommunityMonseyTherapyCultural NarrativesShalom AuslanderFehHaredi UpbringingSelf LoathingMisanthropy

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Monsey, New York, United States
"his Haredi childhood in Monsey in the 1970s, where he tracks down the people who infected him with feh, a Yiddish word that Auslander uses to describe misanthropy so thorough that the person suffering"

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