Cappell / Lang Off the Derech

Leaving Orthodox Judaism
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7726-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 451 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cappell, Ezra

Lang, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Orthodoxes Judentum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Jessica Lang

Part I: Stories

My Father, Myself
Naomi Seidman

That Long and Winding Road
Joshua Halberstam

The Law of Return
Morris Dickstein

Tuesdays with Facebook
Shulem Deen

Black Hat, Combat Helmet, Thinking Cap: A Mostly Philosophical Memoir
Mark Zelcer

How I Lost My Innocence
Frieda Vizel

The Trickster Bride
Leah Vincent

A Stranger among Familiar Faces: Navigating Complicated Familial Relationships When Leaving the Hasidic Community
Frimet Goldberger

Uncovered: An Interview with Leah Lax
Jessica Lang and Ezra Cappell

Excerpts from Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home (Chapter 18)
Leah Lax

Part II: Analysis

Between Us: Intimacy in Women's Off-the-Derech Memoirs
Jessica Lang

The Embodied Process of Haredi Defection
Lynn Davidman

The Right to Education: Israeli OTD People and Their Struggle for a Fair Chance
Moshe Shenfeld

In Terms of OTD
Shira Schwartz

Notes from the Field: Footsteps' Evolution and Approach to Supporting Individuals Leaving the Ultra-Orthodox Community
Rachel Berger, Tsivia Finman, and Lani Santo

Educational Attainments among Disaffiliates from Ultra-Orthodoxy
Miriam R. Moster

Representation, Recognition and Institutionalization of a New Community: Reflection on the Mediatization of Former Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Jessica Roda

The Social Practices and Linguistic Spaces of Shababniks in Brooklyn
Gabi Abramac

The OTD Struggle: Telling a More Compelling Story
Naftuli Moster

Off the Derech and into the Wild: Navigating Jewish American Identity
Ezra Cappell

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ezra Cappell is Professor of Jewish Studies and English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction, also published by SUNY Press. Jessica Lang is Professor of English and Director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College, City University of New York. She is the author of Textual Silence: Unreadability and the Holocaust.