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Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska; Deborah Feldman (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up to his four daughters and his wife to support him as he studies the Torah.Sar ...Show more
Exodus: A Memoir by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography
When Deborah Feldman made the remarkable - and scandalous - decision to leave her family and loveless marriage, wholly rejecting her Hasidic roots, she found herself alienated from the only community she had ever known. Out of her experience came the incendiary bestselling memoir Unorthodox (Simon & ...Show more
Exodus: A Memoir by Deborah Feldman
Category: Judaica
In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, B ...Show more
Exodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography
The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series)-now updated with more than 50 percent new material-the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sectin Williamsburgin order to forgeher own path in the world. In 2009, ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
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 c ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography Memoir
In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel "and Carolyn Jessop's "Escape, Unorthodox "is a captivating story about a young woman determined to live her own life at any cost. The Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism is as mysterious as it is intriguing to outsiders. In this arresting memoir, Deborah Feldma ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography
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 Juda ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots : REMAINDER by Deborah Feldman
Category: Biography
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 Juda ...Show more
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