by Deborah Feldman · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466426893
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Unorthodox is the true and moving story of Deborah Feldman, a young woman born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community who managed to escape this sect. In her memoirs, Feldman describes how she grew up under an implacable code of conduct that governed every aspect of her life, from her clothing to her readings and relationships. Despite the strong repression, Deborah became an open-minded and independent young woman, who rebelled against oppression by secretly studying English and reading authors such as Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. At 17, she was married to a man she barely knew, and trapped in a dysfunctional marriage, the tension between her desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl became unsustainable. At 19, after giving birth to her son, Deborah made the decision to find a path to freedom and happiness, both for herself and her son.
Deborah Feldman is an American-German writer living in Berlin. Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
