by Deborah Feldman · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781982148201
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«Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots» is the memoir by Deborah Feldman (Simon & Schuster, paperback, 272 pages, in English).
Deborah Feldman recalls her childhood and youth in the Satmar community of Hasidic Judaism in Brooklyn, subject to strict rules on dress, reading, and social life. Trapped in an arranged marriage and a mother at nineteen, the author narrates how she began to question her world and decided to seek a life of her own outside the community.
2020 edition with a new epilogue by the author; the work was originally published in 2012.
For readers of memoirs and biographies, and for those who discovered the story through the Netflix series.
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.
