The series is loosely based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. Feldman, like Esty, grew up in the ultra-Orthodox community in ...

Netflix fans are going wild for one heartwrenching mini-series that tells the story of a Hasidic Jewish woman fleeing an ...

(JTA) — The TV series “Unorthodox” took the world by storm in 2020. Now, recent comments about Israel by the story’s Berlin-based Jewish heroine, author Deborah Feldman, have created a ...

By Jason Farago Reporting from Berlin The writer Deborah Feldman has been rattling expectations ever since she published “Unorthodox,” a 2012 memoir of her departure from her Hasidic community ...

Deborah Feldman's memoir, 'Unorthodox,' about leaving the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn inspired the Netflix series of the same name. Growing up, Feldman spoke Yiddish and was discouraged ...

Unorthodox follow Esty’s poignant journey to womanhood and finding her place in the world. Who is Deborah Feldman? The series takes inspiration from the real-life memoirs of writer Deborah ...

The four-part Netflix series, which has been among the platform’s most-viewed content since its March 26 premiere, is loosely based on Deborah Feldman’s best-selling memoir, “Unorthodox ...

The four-episode mini-series is based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 autobiography Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. This compelling and inspiring true story follows Feldman ...

In a 2012 interview with the New York Post, Unorthodox author Deborah Feldman talked about what it was really like to leave her ultra-Orthodox community. “It wasn’t an easy decision for me ...

Deborah Feldman, 33, is an American-German writer that's most famous for book called Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots. Published in 2012, it helped bring her incredible ...

We wanted Esther’s Berlin life to be very different from real Deborah’s Berlin. But there are other details in Unorthodox that are different from Feldman’s real-life experience, including ...

Deborah Feldman, 33, is an American-German writer that's most famous for book called Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots. Published in 2012, it helped bring her incredible ...