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Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism (Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)

Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism (Suny Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)

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Publication Date: August 1st, 2020
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN:
9781438477244
Pages:
451

Description

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.

About the Author

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.