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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1982148209
ISBN-13
9781982148201
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038640090
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unorthodox : the Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Religious, Personal Memoirs, General, Women's Studies, Judaism / Orthodox, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-300705
Reviews
"Deborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was taught that, as a woman, she wasn't capable of independent thought. But she found the pluck and determination needed to make the break from that world and has written a brave, riveting account of her journey. Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant." --Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses, "[Deborah Feldman's] is an extraordinary story of struggle and dream. . . . Both her escape and her decision to tell her story are magnificent acts of courage." --Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden, "Compulsively readable, Unorthodox relates a unique coming-of-age story that manages to speak personally to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in her own life." -- School Library Journal, "Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough . . . No doubt girls all over Brooklyn are buying this book, hiding it under their mattresses, reading it after lights out--and contemplating, perhaps for the first time, their own escape." --HuffingtonPost.com, "Unorthodox is a fascinating book . . . Feldman's voice resonates throughout." -- The Jewish Daily Forward, "Compulsively readable, Unorthodox relates a unique coming-of-age story that manages to speak personally to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in her own life. Feldman bravely lays her soul bare, unflinchingly sharing intimate thoughts and ideas unthinkable within the deeply religious existence of the Satmars. . . . Teens will devour this candid, detailed memoir of an insular way of life so unlike that of the surrounding society." --School Library Journal, " Unorthodox is consistently engaging. And the very fact of it is touching. For years . . . [Feldman] examined library shelves, marveling that there were so many men and women who believed in their 'innate right . . . to speak their mind in whatever way they saw fit.' That she has joined their ranks is remarkable indeed." --BarnesandNobleReview.com, "Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough... No doubt girls all over Brooklyn are buying this book, hiding it under their mattresses, reading it after lights out--and contemplating, perhaps for the first time, their own escape." -- The Huffington Post, "A brave, riveting account... Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant." -- Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, "An unprecedented view into a Hasidic community that few outsiders ever experience." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Deborah Feldman has stripped the cloak off the insular Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, offering outsiders a rare glimpse into the ultraconservative world in which she was raised." -- Globe and Mail (Toronto), "A sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story... Imagine Frank McCourt as a Jewish virgin, and you've got Unorthodox in a nutshell." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "An unprecedented view into a Hasidic community that few outsiders ever experience. . . . Unorthodox reminds us that there are religious communities in the United States that restrict young women to marriage and motherhood. These women are expected to be obedient to their community and religion, without question or complaint, no matter the price." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Imagine Frank McCourt as a Jewish virgin, and you've got Unorthodox in a nutshell . . . a sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, " Unorthodoz is painfully good. . . .Unlike so many other authors who have left Orthodoxy and written about it, [Feldman's] heart is not hardened by hatred, and her spirit is wounded but intact. . . . She is a sensitive and talented writer." --JewishJournal.com, "[Feldman's] no-holds-barred memoir bookstores on February 14th. And it's not exactly a Valentine to the insular world of shtreimels, sheitels and shtiebels. Instead, [ Unorthodox ] describes an oppressive community in which secular education is minimal, outsiders are feared and disdained, English-language books are forbidden, mental illness is left untreated, abuse and other crimes go unreported . . . a surprisingly moving, well-written and vivid coming-of-age tale." -- The Jewish Week, "Nicely written . . . [An] engaging and at times gripping insight into Brooklyn's Hasidic community." -- Publishers Weekly, "Denied every kind of nourishment except the doughy, shimmering plates of food obsessively produced by her Holocaust-survivor grandmother . . . books nourish [Feldman's] spirit and put in her hands the liberatory power of storytelling. As she becomes a reader and then a writer, Feldman reinvents herself as a human being." -- Newsday (New York), "Feldman gives us special insight into a closed and repressive world. . . . Her memoir is fresh and tart and utterly absorbing." -- Library Journal, "Feldman's evolution as well as her look inside a closed community make for fascinating reading ... her storyteller's sense and a keen eye for details give readers a you-are-there sense of what it is like to be different when everyone else is the same." -- Booklist
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
974.7/044092 B
Edition Description
Media tie-in
Synopsis
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES Deborah Feldman's bestselling memoir of escaping from a strict Hasidic community includes a new afterword by the author detailing her life after leaving her husband and forging new beginnings for herself and her young son., 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.
LC Classification Number
F128.9.J5F525 2020
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