1982148209 
Book Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots / Deborah Feldman.
Publication year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781982148201 (pbk.) :
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Originally published: 2012.
TV tie-in.
Extent: 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Available: 1
Total number of loans: 1
Loans this year: 0
Number of reservations: 0
Description:
In this memoir about growing up in - and ultimately escaping from - a strict Hasidic community, Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within a religious sect that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms. Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trap
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