Category: Religion

• Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

  

  In this memoir, Deborah Feldman reveals what life is like trapped within the Hasidic Jewish religious sect that values silence & suffering over individual freedoms.

  February 21, 2024

  Memoir & Autobiography, Religion

  2012 Release, Adapted Book, Author: F, Book Review, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Rating: 4 stars, Religion, Simon & Schuster

• Under the Banner of Heaven

  

  A multi-layered work of investigative journalism that explores a savage double murder within one of America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.

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  February 26, 2023

  Biography & History, Religion, True Crime

  2003 Release, Adapted Book, Author: K, Book Review, History & Biography, Nonfiction, Random House, Rating: 3.5 stars, Religion, True Crime