Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots
Record details
- ISBN: 1439187010 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 9781439187012 (trade paper)
- ISBN: 1439187002 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781439187005 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781982148201
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Physical Description:
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254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Traces the author's upbringing in the Satmar Hasidic community in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York, describing the strict rules that governed her life, her arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 33 of 35 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 2 copies available at Woodbury Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 35 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Woodbury Public Library | B FELDMAN (Text) | 34018124867344 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 03/09/2024 |
Woodbury Public Library | B FELDMAN (Text) | 34018150378950 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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Unorthodox : The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
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Unorthodox : The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
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. 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.