Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels by Hella Winston Yiddish Learning going back to the bible

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Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels by Hella Winston Yiddish Learning going back to the bibleAn exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communitiesand, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond themWhen Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories of these rebel Hasidim,