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Unorthodox

The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

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Unorthodox

De : Deborah Feldman, Cassandra Campbell
Lu par : Rachel Botchan
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 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. Femmes Judaïsme

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Commentaires

“A brave, riveting account... Unorthodox is harrowing, yet triumphant.”
— Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle
“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
“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
“It's one of those books you can't put down.”
— Joan Rivers, in The New York Post
“An unprecedented view into a Hasidic community that few outsiders ever experience.”
— Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“[Feldman’s] matter-of-fact style masks some penetrating insights.”
— The New York Times
“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
“Riveting... extraordinary.”
— Marie Claire
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Thank you for writing, Deborah. I first discovered your story through the series on Netflix, and I am glad to know its twin here. I cannot say how grateful I am that someone is at last talking about the injustice and the violence done to religious women who are forbidden from knowing their bodies, then suddenly forced to intimately know another's body immediately after marriage. The violence that can be done to a girl who doesn't understand what could be happening. Thank you.

Throughout, the constant religious cultural focus on women's behavior, girls' dress, modesty, and the "appropriate", etc, vs male sins of molestation, cruelty, and rape being brushed over as "unprovable" or "forgivable" moved me to tears. I, too, recognize this same dismissal of grave misconduct in favor of policing girls' alone time. In favor of accusing a girl of causing a man to sin. Even though the specifics of the Hasidic life are different from my own fundamentalist Christian upbringing within the purity culture, the feeling that at last I had found another who understood my hidden doubt mingled with my all consuming desire to please, to fit in, is breathtaking and validating. The lengths you went to just to read forbidden books made me smile but then sadden in recognition. Hiding books, reading at all stolen hours, gradually getting your hands on books that revealed more and more truth.

I'm still trying to get out, but your book makes me dream again that maybe someday I can.

A True Heroine. Thank you, Deborah.

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Interesting book about the journey to freedom of young Jewish girl, taking courage to quit her community.

Powerfull story

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