Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family

Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family

A heartfelt and inspiring personal account of a woman raised as a Lubavitcher Hasid who leaves that world without leaving the family that remains within it.
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Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didnâ€™t belong in the Hasidic world into which sheâ€™d been born. She spent her teenage years outwardly conforming to but secretly rebelling against the rules that tell you what and when to eat, how to dress, whom you can befriend, and what you must believe. Loving her parents, grandparents, and extended family, Chaya struggled to fit in but instead felt angry, stifled, and frustrated. Upon receiving permission from her bewildered but supportive parents to attend Barnard College, she discovered a wider world in which she could establish an independent identity and fulfill her dream of an unconfined life that would be filled with the secular knowledge and culture that were largely foreign to her friends and relatives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As she gradually shed the physical and spiritual trappings of Hasidic life, Chaya found herself torn between her desire to be honest with her parents about who she now was and her need to maintain a loving relationship with the family that she still very much wanted to be part of.
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Eventually, Chaya and her parents came to an understanding that was based on unqualified love and a hard-won but fragile form of acceptance. With honesty, sensitivity, and intelligence, Chaya Deitsch movingly shows us that lives lived differently do not have to be lives lived apart.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Schocken
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Schocken
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family

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