Deborah Feldman
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Deborah Feldman is an American-German writer living in Berlin. Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from a Hasidic Jewish com
Feldman in 2017
Satmar
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Satmar is a group in Hasidic Judaism founded in 1905 by Joel Teitelbaum in the city of Szatmárnémeti in the Kingdom of Hungary, which was called Satmar in Yiddish. It is a branch of the Siget Hasidic
Deborah Feldman
…Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox. Feldman grew up as a member of the Hasidic Satmar group in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. She has written that her father was mentally impaired, and that her paternal family had arranged a marriage…
The main Satmar synagogue in Kiryas Joel, New York
Joel Teitelbaum bowing before King Carol II of Romania, 1936
Zalman Teitelbaum, 2007
The book Vayoel Moshe, where Teitelbaum lays out his opposition to Zionism