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Unorthodox
Book Review: Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
May 29, 2012

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon & Schuster, 2012) is Deborah Feldman’s memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the most insular of Chasidic sects, the Satmars. Fathered by the village idiot and abandoned by her mother, Feldman is raised by her grandparents, a bride at 17, a mother at 19, and a divorcee at 22—at which age she enrolls in Sarah… [Read More]

Filed Under: Chasid, Deborah Feldman, Hasid, memoir, Satmar, Unorthodox
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