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The author of the explosive New York Times-bestselling memoir Unorthodox 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. Exodus: A Memoir - Ebook written by Deborah Feldman. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Exodus: A Memoir. Author of a memoir being published by Simon and Schuster in 2011. Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York. She attends Sarah lawrence College.
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Exodus by Deborah Feldman
New York : Blue Rider Press 2014
ISBN-13: 9780399162770 : Hardcover 289 pgs. $26.95
Exodus Book Deborah Feldman
Annotation: Twenty-something Deborah Feldman resumes narrating her story following separation from the Satmar Hasidic community of Brooklyn, NewYork where she was raised and married.
Summary: Readers of Feldman’s first memoir, Exodus, will thrill to the next installment of her journey forward after separating from the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York during 2009. Now twenty-eight years old, Feldman updates readers about the five years during which she and son, Isaac, relocated to the New England countryside. Always candid and straight-forward, Feldman discusses her graduation from Sarah Lawrence College, furthering her writing career, and discovering her sexuality. Though she is no longer Orthodox, Feldman grapples making peace with her Jewishness by tracing her grandmother’s movements in Europe during the Holocaust.
Evaluation: I thoroughly engaged with Feldman’s memoir. I find her story fascinating and her honesty refreshing. I have suggested her books numerous times at the library. I may not always share in or agree with her observations, but her detailed, first-hand observations living as part of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn makes for compelling reading. This title has broad appeal especially for readers that are interested in learning about other religious faiths.
Author’s Website: http://www.deborahfeldman.com
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Ratings: I give this title 4.5 out of 5 possible stars because of its candor and compelling prose.
Genre: Memoir and biography. Inspirational, religious non-fiction.
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Appeal Factors:
This memoir is character-driven.
Feldman’s story proceeds at a leisurely pace.
The tone of the memoir is both bittersweet and sober, explicit, impassioned, and in the end, hopeful!
Feldman’s writing style is conversational, candid, and compelling.
Booktalking Ideas
Samsung easy printer manager mac os download. Original Book Discussion Questions:
- Discuss Feldman’s motivations moving to the New England countryside with her son, Isaac.
- Discuss Feldman’s connection with her emerging sexuality. What do you think about her choices as a newly single young woman?
- Feldman explores her Jewishness by tracing her grandmother’s movements in Europe during the Holocaust. Discuss her motivations making this trip. Do you think Feldman has succeeded brokering a kind of peace with her Jewishness after making the trip? Why/why not?
- There is little mention of Feldman’s ex-husband or their co-parenting arrangements. Why do you suppose the author has not addressed this relationship in the book?
- Feldman describes her struggle with insomnia. What are your thoughts about Feldman’s visits with the New England shaman for him to asses her chakras to determine where her energy is blocked? Is this a kind of mumbo-jumbo or a valid treatment protocol?
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Tags: Jewish Orthodoxy, Brooklyn, Hasidim, Hasidic, Jews, Jewish women, women writers, arranged marriage