
Unorthodox
The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Botchan
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Cassandra Campbell
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By:
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Deborah Feldman
Called “brave and riveting” by Jeannette Walls, Deborah Feldman’s New York Times best-selling memoir of escaping from a strict Hasidic community includes a new afterword by the author as well as the epilogues from the original 2012 editions detailing the circumstances of her life after leaving her husband and forging new beginnings for herself and her young son.
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 19 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.
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a very emotional and beautiful story
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Honest & Heartfelt Story!
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To be or not to be
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Captivating story
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Incredibly interesting saga
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Deborah Feldman takes us on her journey from feeling ashamed of being different in a community- where rules are omnipresent to keep everyone the same- to her differentness empowering her.
She finds her solace in reading, and then her voice in writing.
What a gift it was to have a front row seat to her journey. I learned so much about my own Jewish history and identity. She opened so many windows into the world of shared Judaism separated by the choices our holocaust survivor grandparents made. My grandparents chose a different more secular Judaism, so our family never experienced what she did, but I could see the ways a different choice might have put me in her exact position.
I’d like to think that I would have had the inner strength, to find and wield the power of my own voice. In many ways, I still am.
The universal story of finding a voice
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Relatable
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Exceptional !
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