Deborah Feldman

The author of the best-selling Unorthodox traces her new life as an independent young woman and single mother searching for an authentic and personal Jewish identity, describing how after leaving her Hasidic community she pursued healing in a circle of like-minded outcasts and misfits.

Exodus

When Deborah Feldman made the remarkable - and scandalous - decision to leave her family and loveless marriage, wholly rejecting her Hasidic roots, she found herself alienated from the only community she had ever known. Out of her experience came the incendiary bestselling memoir Unorthodox (Simon & Schuster, 2012), and just a few years later, Feldman has emerged on the cusp of a remarkable journey of self-discovery - a journey in which she begins her life anew, a single mother and a religious refugee, at the age of 26.

A Memoir

Ember Skies

The author of the explosive New York Times bestselling memoir Unorthodox (now a Netflix limited series) chronicles her continuing journey as a single mother, an independent woman, and a religious refugee. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman walked away from the rampant oppression, abuse, and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to forge a better life for herself and her young son. Since leaving, Feldman has navigated remarkable experiences: raising her son in the “real” world, finding solace and solitude in a writing career, and searching for love. Culminating in an unforgettable trip across Europe to retrace her grandmother’s life during the Holocaust, Exodus is a deeply moving exploration of the mysterious bonds that tie us to family and religion, the bonds we must sometimes break to find our true selves.

Samantha Plakun

Ambar

Zoey Mikalatos

Mit 23 verlässt Deborah Feldman die ultraorthodoxe chassidische Gemeinde der Satmarer Juden in Williamsburg, New York, und damit das Leben, das sie in »Unorthodox« so packend erzählt hat. Die Möglichkeit zurückzukehren hat sie nicht. Sie folgt ihrem großen Traum, gemeinsam mit ihrem Sohn in Freiheit zu leben. Sie verlässt New York und folgt den europäischen Spuren ihrer geliebten Großmutter, die den Holocaust überlebt hat und die die einzige Person war, bei der sich die junge Frau angenommen fühlte. Schließlich gelingt es Deborah Feldman, Wurzeln zu schlagen, ausgerechnet in Berlin, dem Ort, der durch die Satmarer mit so vielen Ängsten und Vorurteilen verbunden war. Bildstark, wortgewaltig erzählt Deborah Feldman die beeindruckende Geschichte einer Selbstfindung und Versöhnung mit der Vergangenheit.

Exodus

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