Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman

Simon & Schuster

2012

273 páginas

9h 6m

ISBN-10: B005GG0M60

Unorthodox is the 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.

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. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. 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, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.

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Incrível história de uma judia nascida em uma comunidade judaica ultra-ortodoxa. Difícil imaginar uma vida tão cheia de restrições e segredos ainda nos dias de hoje, especialmente para mulheres. Assisti primeiro à mini série na Netflix e acabei me interessando pela história real e fui atrás do livro, disponível apenas em inglês e não publicado no Brasil ainda. Amei o livro e a mini série. Super indico!