Unorthodox Unorthodox

Unorthodox

The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

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Publisher Description

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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. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.

Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2012
February 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Canada
SIZE
3.5
MB

Customer Reviews

StellaNewman11 ,

Amazing!

The story is well written without ill bias toward the community. The author does a great job at showing her life, her relationships and what made her different then her other Satmar piers.

Squidge549 ,

Read This Book!

A moving memoir that resonates deeply.

howvs ,

Good read

Enjoyable and fascinating to learn about the community she came from.

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