Deborah Feldman | |
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Born | New York City | August 17, 1986
Nationality | American German[1] |
Occupation | Author |
Notable work | Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots |
Children | 1 |
Website | deborahfeldman |
Deborah Feldman is an American-born German[1] writer living in Berlin. Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.