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  1. Deborah Feldman is an American-born German 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 .

    • August 17, 1986 (age 37), New York City
    • Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
    • American, German
    • Author
  2. 6. 'Unorthodox' author Deborah Feldman (Screen capture: YouTube) The woman who authored a memoir of how she left her strict ultra-Orthodox life as a wife and mother in a Hasidic sect has revealed ...

  3. Apr 11, 2024 · The writer Deborah Feldman has been rattling expectations ever since she published “Unorthodox,” a 2012 memoir of her departure from her Hasidic community in New York, which was later made ...

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  5. www.deborahfeldman.com › aboutDeborah Feldman

    Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her native language is Yiddish. She studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College before publishing the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster, 2012) which was adapted as an Emmy-award-wining series for Netflix in 2020.

  6. 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.

  7. Mar 31, 2020 · Deborah Feldman left her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community for a new life in Berlin. She talked about what it has been like having her autobiography adapted for Netflix. Share full article. 88.

  8. www.deborahfeldman.com › unorthodoxDeborah Feldman

    Deborah Feldman. Now a Netflix Original Series! In this arresting memoir about growing up in—and ultimately escaping from—a strict Hasidic community, Deborah Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within a religious sect that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms. The Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism is as mysterious as it ...

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