The black and white picture above shows the two interviewers, Christoph Amend and Jochen Wegner as well as the podcast producer Maria Lorenz with Deborah Feldman, courtesy of www.diezeit. Unorthodox follows Esther Esty Shapiro (played by Israeli actress Shira Haas), a headstrong 19-year-old girl who, deeply unhappy with her place in the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn in. Buy a discounted Paperback of Unorthodox online from Australias. Listening and learning is worth the four hours of your lifetime, believe me. Booktopia has Unorthodox, The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman. This time you believe every word of doubt this wonderful writer still has in her writing, how she cannot stop to put her own story into perspective, to relativize her fame and to underline the contributions of others.Īnd even when she communicates with her dog on the side or about the food the interviewers had made serve her, she seems to be honest every minute. Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish womans escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of. And that is pretty rare in that very podcast: Normally the two interviewers shower their guests with praises and the guests take it graciously, why shouldn´t they. I only talk about it now because there is that new episode of 'Alles gesagt', the podcast by 'Die Zeit' - and it is maybe one of the most impressive interviews I have ever heard.īecause whatever question Deborah Feldman answers to - she does it in a quick and smart way and with a distinctive eloquence and a lot of humour.īut the most impressive thing is how humble she acts.

Unorthodox by deborah feldman