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Author: Lynn Davidman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0199380503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts.
Author: Deborah Feldman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1439187010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman 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. 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. 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.
Author: Abby Stein
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1580059171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be?
Author: Anabel Inge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0190611677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSalafism, often called "Wahhabism," is widely seen as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that subjugates women, yet growing numbers of young British women, many of them converts or from less conservative Muslim backgrounds, are actively embracing it. With unprecedented access to Salafi women's groups in the UK, Anabel Inge provides the first in-depth account of their lives, probing the reasons for their conversion and their subsequent dilemmas and difficulties.
Author: Naomi Ragen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 125016124X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Unorthodox Match is a powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from author Naomi Ragen, the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, when suddenly, without warning, everything tragically implodes. After years fruitlessly searching for love, marriage, and children, she decides to take the radical step of seeking spirituality and meaning far outside the parameters of modern life in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. There, fate brings her to the dysfunctional home of newly-widowed Jacob, a devout Torah scholar, whose life is also in turmoil, and whose small children are aching for the kindness of a womanly touch. While her mother direly predicts she is ruining her life, enslaving herself to a community that is a misogynistic religious cult, Lola’s heart tells her something far more complicated. But it is the shocking and unexpected messages of her new community itself which will finally force her into a deeper understanding of the real choices she now faces and which will ultimately decide her fate.
Author: Zev Eleff
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0827612575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism. These include the traditionalists’ response to the early expressions of Reform Judaism, as well as incidents that helped define the widening differences between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century. Other texts explore the internal struggles to maintain order and balance once Orthodox Judaism had separated itself from other religious movements. Zev Eleff combines published documents with seldom-seen archival sources in tracing Modern Orthodoxy as it developed into a structured movement, established its own institutions, and encountered critical events and issues—some that helped shape the movement and others that caused tension within it. A general introduction explains the rise of the movement and puts the texts in historical context. Brief introductions to each section guide readers through the documents of this new, dynamic Jewish expression.
Author: Lynn Davidman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0520075455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[Davidman's] rich ethnographic observations and lucid prose illuminate two of the more important aspects of modern religion generally: the changing role of women and the resurgence of traditional faith."—Robert Wuthnow, author of Meaning and Moral Order
Author: Karoline Lindboe Englund
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780648995821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I am not a superwoman. I just learned to act like one." Just two years after her heartbreaking divorce, redundancy, and 'shunning' from the Jehovah's Witnesses, Karoline Lindboe Englund has created a wildly successful 7-figure lifestyle that she once believed impossible. Throughout Unorthodox, the Swedish-based mother of two shares her inspirational journey from heartbreak to unstoppable abundance. By using her chaotic circumstances as leverage to upgrade her life, she has transformed herself from tumultuous despair to the heights of new-found love and prosperity as a triple company owner. Unorthodox is an interactive experience that will give you the exact steps to finally put your excuses aside and create an Extraordinary Life, Business and Relationship - just like Karoline did. You will learn how to: - Transform your life from mediocre to five-star - Turn your downside into an unstoppable advantage - Utilize the powerful mindset secrets all 7-figure business owners use - Control fear and develop unshakable self-belief, no matter what If the demands and expectations of others hold you back from achieving what you truly desire, and you would love to create the life, business, and relationship of your dreams but don't know where to begin - Karoline provides all of the tools you need. Karoline Lindboe Englund is a Swedish-based entrepreneur and business strategist. She works with the ideology that companies and individuals can enjoy their full potential if they understand how to apply an expansive mindset.
Author: Miryam Kabakov
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1556438796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK***WINNER, 2011 Golden Crown Literary Award - Anthology Reconciling queerness with religion has always been an enormous challenge. When the religion is Orthodox Judaism, the task is even more daunting. This anthology takes on that challenge by giving voice to genderqueer Jewish women who were once silenced—and effectively rendered invisible—by their faith. Keep Your Wives Away from Them tells the story of those who have come out, who are still closeted, living double lives, or struggling to maintain an integrated "single life" in relationship to traditional Judaism—personal stories that are both enlightening and edifying. While a number of films and books have explored the lives of queer people in Orthodox and observant Judaism, only this one explores in depth what happens after the struggle, when the real work of building integrated lives begins. The candor of these insightful stories in Keep Your Wives Away from Them makes the book appealing to a general audience and students of women’s, gender, and LGBTQ studies, as well as for anyone struggling personally with the same issue. Contributors include musician and writer Temim Fruchter, Professor Joy Ladin, writer Leah Lax, nurse Tamar Prager, and the pseudonymous Ex-Yeshiva Girl. Keep Your Wives Away from Them official website: http://www.keepyourwivesawayfromthem.com/
Author: Leah Vincent
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0698192672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. As the daughter of an influential rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings were raised to worship two things: God and the men who ruled their world. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned for herself was cut short when, at sixteen, she was caught exchanging letters with a male friend, a violation of religious law that forbids contact between members of the opposite sex. Leah's parents were unforgiving. Afraid, in part, that her behavior would affect the marriage prospects of their other children, they put her on a plane and cut off ties. Cast out in New York City, without a father or husband tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared to navigate the freedoms of secular life. She spent the next few years using her sexuality as a way of attracting the male approval she had been conditioned to seek out as a child, while becoming increasingly unfaithful to the religious dogma of her past. Fast-paced, mesmerizing, and brutally honest, Cut Me Loose tells the story of one woman's harrowing struggle to define herself as an individual. Through Leah's eyes, we confront not only the oppressive world of religious fundamentalism, but also the broader issues that face even the most secular young women as they grapple with sexuality and identity.
