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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...
Oct 2, 2012 · 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.
Mar 26, 2020 · Unorthodox is based on the life of Deborah Feldman, who wrote a memoir about her experiences. Unorthodox, an Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries, tells the riveting story of 19-year-old Esther Shapiro's (Shira Haas) journey out of her insular, religious community in Brooklyn, toward a secular and independent life in Berlin.
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.
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 ...
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.
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