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Richard Allen Shapiro (born June 27, 1934) and Esther June Shapiro (née Mayesh; born June 6, 1928) are an American married couple who work as television screenwriters and producers, through their Shapiro Film Corporation.
Apr 17, 2020 · Unorthodox follows Esther “Esty” Shapiro (played by Israeli actress Shira Haas), a headstrong 19-year-old girl who, deeply unhappy with her place in the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn...
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Jul 25, 2022 · Directed by acclaimed German filmmaker, Maria Schrader, the four-part miniseries offers a glimpse into New York’s insular Hasidic community through the life and struggles of Esther “Esty” Shapiro. It follows Esty’s journey as she abandons her ultra-orthodox Jewish community in an attempt to find her own voice.
Mar 26, 2020 · The four-part miniseries follows the journey of Esther Shapiro (Shira Haas), a young Orthodox woman who leaves her community in Brooklyn for a new life in Berlin. Unorthodox is based on the life of Deborah Feldman, who wrote a memoir about her experiences.
- Elena Nicolaou
- Simon & Schuster
Mar 28, 2020 · The main character in Unorthodox is Esther Shapiro, played by Shira Haas. She's a young woman from an insular community of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn who are mostly descendants of Holocaust...
Apr 8, 2020 · Unorthodox stars Shira Haas as Esther Shapiro, a young woman from the Satmar community who, like Feldman did, enters into an arranged marriage as a teenager. One year later, pregnant and desperate to escape the pressures of her culture and an unhappy marriage to her husband, Yakov (Amit Rahav), Esty flees to Berlin.
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Apr 10, 2020 · Based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, the four-part show follows Esther “Esty” Shaprio (Shira Haas), a 19-year-old Satmar Jew living in...
