Matthue Roth (no relation to Penina Roth) ¡½ whose latest book, My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs, is the kind of children's story that adults love ¡½ wrote a different sort of Orthodox memoir, Yom Kippur a Go-Go. Described as a ¡Èmind-blowing meeting of pop culture, Orthodox faith, and hipster poetics,¡É Roth's story is basically the opposite of what Auslander and Feldman have done. Despite the peyos(side locks) and yarmulke that identify him as a Hasid, he dresses more like the kind of guy you would skateboard with than the type you'd meet at synagogue. With his head and heart in the Hasidic world, Roth also celebrates his secular tastes throughout his memoir, striking a balance between his old-time religious beliefs and modern-world interests, from poetry to hip hop.

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