Deborah vyrastala v satmárskej sekte, v spoločenstve odštiepeného od chasidského judaizmu, kde sa nič nesmie dostať na verejnosť. Tajomstvá sa neprezrádzajú. Ako to tam naozaj funguje, vedia iba členovia, ktorí sú zväzovaní prísnymi náboženskými pravidlami. Nezasvätení nemajú prakticky žiadnu šancu dozvedieť sa viac. Títo židia sú odstrihnutí od vonkajšieho sveta. Majú vlastnú bublinu,[...]
The 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… ...
The 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.
