I found one on Youtube by Marion at My Jewish Mommy Life. I had heard about a Netflix show called Unorthodox and was curious about it so I decided to look up reviews. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, for the sake of herself and her son, she had to escape. It was stolen moments spent with the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott that helped her to imagine an alternative way of life. The instant New York Times 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.Īs 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. However, this book is not only boring but its author is also a perpetual victim and not so great person. I’m usually not too critical of nonfiction because it’s not for me to say if somebody’s real life story is entertaining or not. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldamn is one of the worst books I’ve read.
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