Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

The instant New York Times 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. It was stolen moments spent with the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott that helped her to imagine an alternative way of life. 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, for the sake of herself and her son, she had to escape.

Deborah Feldman grew up in the Hasidic settlement of Satmar in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. She is a student at Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her kid in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781439187005
ISBN 10	1439187002
Title	Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Author	Deborah Feldman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2012-02-14
Number of pages	272
Prizes	Commended for Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2012
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