engaging and at times gripping insight into Brooklyn's Hasidic community." - Publishers Weekly, "Denied every kind of nourishment except the doughy, shimmering plates of food obsessively produced by her Holocaust-survivor grandmother. These women are expected to be obedient to their community and religion, without question or complaint, no matter the price." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Nicely written. Unorthodox reminds us that there are religious communities in the United States that restrict young women to marriage and motherhood. Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden, "An unprecedented view into a Hasidic community that few outsiders ever experience. Both her escape and her decision to tell her story are magnificent acts of courage. Globe and Mail (Toronto), is an extraordinary story of struggle and dream.
, Deborah Feldman has stripped the cloak off the insular Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, offering outsiders a rare glimpse into the ultraconservative world in which she was raised. No doubt girls all over Brooklyn are buying this book, hiding it under their mattresses, reading it after lights outand contemplating, perhaps for the first time, their own escape. No doubt girls all over Brooklyn are buying this book, hiding it under their mattresses, reading it after lights out-and contemplating, perhaps for the first time, their own escape.", Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough. Jeannette Walls, #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses, "Eloquent, appealing, and just emotional enough. But she found the pluck and determination needed to make the break from that world and has written a brave, riveting account of her journey. 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.ĭeborah Feldman was raised in an insular, oppressive world where she was taught that, as a woman, she wasn't capable of independent thought.
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. Deborah 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. In this arresting memoir, Deborah Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within a religious tradition that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms. The Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism is as mysterious as it is intriguing to outsiders. 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.
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