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Deborah Feldman is an American-born German [1] writer living in Berlin. Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
Jul 9, 2020 · Deborah Feldman, 33, whose book “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” was made this year into a Netflix series, said her former husband contacted her to say he too...
Apr 2, 2014 · Deborah Feldman, the 27-year-old author of the 2012 best-selling memoir “Unorthodox,” is releasing her second memoir, “Exodus” — a disjointed tale of her adjustment from personal oppression to...
Mar 15, 2021 · Deborah Feldman talks about breaking away from her arranged marriage and the fundamentalist religious community she was raised in. Her 2012 memoir inspired the Netflix series Unorthodox.
Apr 11, 2024 · Feldman, who wrote in “Unorthodox” about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.
Apr 8, 2020 · Netflix's limited drama series Unorthodox is loosely based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a writer who grew up as part of the Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but later left her husband and cut ties with the community.
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Unorthodox sheds new light on this subculture through one woman’s harrowing tale of repression and self-discovery. Raised in the cloistered world of Brooklyn’s Satmar Hasidim, Deborah Feldman struggled as a naturally curious child to make sense of and obey the rigid strictures that governed her daily life.
