![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Branded an outcast because of her mother’s flight from the community and her father’s mental illness, she was raised by her grandparents and lived in constant fear of being caught reading secular books in English. “It results in a world of trouble that I could easily save myself from, if I could only learn to keep quiet.” In “ Unorthodox,” her memoir of growing up in the strict Satmar Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that rebellious streak eventually led to the ultimate act of defiance: leaving the community behind.įrom a young age, Feldman never quite fit into a restrictive world where Yiddish is the vernacular, and women never go to college and are frequently married off in their teens. “I can’t help my natural impulse to talk back,” Deborah Feldman writes, describing her tendency as a child to correct a teacher’s grammatical mistake or misquotation. ![]()
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