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Overview"In recent years, many formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews have documented leaving their communities in published stories, films, and memoirs. This movement is often identified as ""off the derech"" (OTD), or off the path, with the idea that the ""path"" is paved by Jewish law, rituals, and practices found within their birth communities. This volume tells the powerful stories of people abandoning their religious communities and embarking on uncertain journeys toward new lives and identities within mainstream society. Off the Derech is divided into two parts: stories and analysis. The first includes original selections from contemporary American and global authors writing about their OTD experiences. The second features chapters by scholars representing such diverse fields as literature, history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, religion, and gender studies. The interdisciplinary lenses provide a range of methodologies by which readers can better understand this significant phenomenon within contemporary Jewish society." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ezra Cappell , Jessica LangPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438477251ISBN 10: 1438477252 Pages: 451 Publication Date: 01 August 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 IndexReviewsOff the Derech tells an important story of a growing community of disaffiliated members who are living on the margins of their previous worlds and are building new spaces for themselves with new identities. - Nova Religio An important and eye-opening work for those of us who have been off the derech for ages or who are eyeing an exit ramp. The essays and memoirs reinforce each other beautifully. A true must read. - Gary Shteyngart This is an impressive collection of personal narratives, conversations, and historical and sociological analysis. Its greatest strengths are the diversity of voices offered and the honesty of the contributors. I found it compelling. - Nora L. Rubel, author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination An important and eye-opening work for those of us who have been off the derech for ages or who are eyeing an exit ramp. The essays and memoirs reinforce each other beautifully. A true must read. - Gary Shteyngart This is an impressive collection of personal narratives, conversations, and historical and sociological analysis. Its greatest strengths are the diversity of voices offered and the honesty of the contributors. I found it compelling. - Nora L. Rubel, author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination Author InformationEzra 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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