Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
A Religion, Biography, Jewish book. sounded like another language entirely. I felt relieved, momentarily, to be a relatively worldly Lubavitcher,...
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. Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn’t belong in the Hasidic world into which she’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...
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sounded like another language entirely. I felt relieved, momentarily, to be a relatively worldly Lubavitcher, even if I didnt entirely fit in with the Crown Heights crowd. Much to my disappointment, Miri was rarely to be seen. Most days she left the apartment around ten in a giddy rush and returned in the early evening with armloads of shopping bags, only to leave again for dinner with her friends. But one morning, when Leah was otherwise engaged, I was finally recruited for shomeres service. We were going to Ratfolvis, in Flatbush, to pick up the sheitel...
Good read and good lessonI think I've read all the popular books on leaving Hasidism, and most border on the sensational aspects, which made for captivating reads. However, this book also captivated me for its more gentle spirit. I liked reading that you can leave that world and still have respect for those you leave in it and self... 3.5 stars. Adequately written, this memoir of a Hasidic Lubavitcher girl, was an enjoyable trip through familiar territory. ( Not that I knew all that much about the Lubavitchers, which, incidentally, I was happy to learn.) I identified with Chaya as she struggled to find her way out of smothering rituals and obligations. I got to know... Thankfully this is not a memoir where things go terribly wrong, and awful things happen, and families are torn apart. This is a very introspective memoir about the author's struggle, through her childhood, to come to terms with her love of family, and dislike/apathy of the religion she was brought up in.Deitsch is a great writer - easily...
