by Deborah Feldman · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722366359
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«Unorthodox: A verdadeira história das minhas raízes» is Deborah Feldman's autobiography in paperback (304 pages, in Portuguese).
Deborah Feldman evokes her childhood and youth in the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York, where religious norms governed dress, reading and relationships. Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott offered her an imaginary door to another life; her arranged marriage and motherhood drove her to seek freedom.
Published by Editorial Presença, this edition came out in September 2020; the original work, «Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots», is from 2012. The book inspired the Netflix series.
For readers of memoirs and testimonies, interested in life in closed religious communities and personal emancipation.
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.
