Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels Winston Hella
An exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communities--and, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond themWhen Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in…
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An exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communities--and, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond themWhen Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories of these -rebel- Hasidim, serious questioners who long for greater personal and intellectual freedom than their communities allow.She meets is Malky Schwartz, who grew up in a Lubavith sect in Brooklyn, and started Footsteps, Inc., an organization that helps ultra-Orthodox Jews who are considering or have already left their community. There is Yossi, a young man who, though deeply attached to the Hasidic culture in which he was raised,
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