Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

2 reviews

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Very different from the Netflix show: more dark, cultish & sad. I thought it would be like Fiddler on the Roof but it was more Handmaids Tale 😢 These Hasids make the Amish look progressive 4📖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Antisemitism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, and Child abuse

lbird's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This very personal account of growing up as a woman in an Ultra-Orthodox community and feeling restrained by its strict rules of is a moving memoir. It explores her experience of Judaism being used as an instrument of control and shame throughout her childhood and early 20s. While I would have liked for some of her other family to members have been more developed and for her written description of her father’s disabilities to develop as she became older in the memoir, her voice is clear. It is a story of female liberation and gaining the confidence to stand up for yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Murder, and Genocide