by Deborah Feldman · btb Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442715343
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«Unorthodox» is the autobiography of Deborah Feldman, published by btb Taschenbuch in paperback (382 pages, in German).
Deborah Feldman recounts her childhood and youth in the Satmar Jewish community of Williamsburg (New York), where women's lives are governed by very strict religious rules. Feldman, married very young in an arranged marriage, describes daily oppression and her gradual awakening, until she finds the strength to leave the community with her son in search of a free life.
German edition translated by Christian Ruzicska; the English original, «Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots», dates from 2012.
For readers of memoirs and testimonies, especially those who know the Netflix series based on the book or seek stories of overcoming and personal freedom.
Deborah Feldman is an American-German writer living in Berlin. Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
