Bibliograph

Unorthodox, the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots, Deborah Feldman

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Unorthodox, the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots, Deborah Feldman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unorthodox

Oclc number

1124369316

Responsibility statement

Deborah Feldman

Sub title

the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots

Summary

"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 Deborahs 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 pathfor herself and her sonto happiness and freedom." --, Amazon

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