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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
The author of "Unorthodox" and the Netflix series based on it reveals that her former spouse, who she married as a teen in a Hasidic sect, also left the fold and thanked her for showing him the way. She says they have a good relationship and he is married to a secular woman.
Deborah Feldman is a former Hasidic woman who wrote the bestselling memoir UNORTHODOX and the Netflix series based on it. She lives in Berlin with her son and writes in Yiddish and German.
Apr 11, 2024 · April 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...
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.
Deborah Feldman is a former Hasidic Jew who escaped from a strict and repressive community in Brooklyn. Her memoir, Unorthodox, is now a Netflix original series that reveals the secrets and struggles of her life.
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Oct 2, 2012 · 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 ...
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