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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.
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 ...
Deborah Feldman. "Intriguing and intellectually satisfying... raises hard questions that are important to many people". -- Washington Post. Author of a memoir being published by Simon and Schuster in 2011. Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York.
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 into...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots is a 2012 memoir by Deborah Feldman. In the book, she documents her life in an ultra-religious Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
Mar 3, 2020 · 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...
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.
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 15, 2021 · Deborah Feldman's memoir, 'Unorthodox,' about leaving the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn inspired the Netflix series of the same name. Growing up, Feldman spoke Yiddish and was...
