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Esty Shapiro, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, is living unhappily in an arranged marriage among the Satmar sect of the ultra-Orthodox community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. [1] She runs away to Berlin , where her estranged mother lives, and tries to navigate a secular life, discovering life outside her community and rejecting all of ...
Yiddish One of Us is a 2017 documentary feature film that chronicles the lives of three ex- Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn . The film was directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady , who also created the documentary Jesus Camp . [ 2 ]
Man Is a Woman; Marathon Man (film) Maravillas (film) Marci X; Marjorie Morningstar (film) Mary (2024 film) Menashe (film) The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) Metamorphosis of a Melody; The Meyerowitz Stories; Mighty Fine; Mina Tannenbaum; Minyan (film) Mr. Emmanuel; Mr. Skeffington; Molly's Pilgrim; Monsieur Batignole; Monty Python's Life of Brian
Yentl is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev [3] in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man.
Deborah Feldman is an American-born German [1] writer living in Berlin.Her 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of her escape from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, and was the basis of the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.
Feldman is reflective, never mincing words, saying exactly how she feels about everything. For a woman with little formal secular education, her writing is eloquent and stirring." [4] The New York Jewish Week reported that the book "spurred a cottage industry devoted to dispelling its inaccuracies". [5]
A Gesheft (Yiddish: א געשעפט, The Deal) is a 2005 action film, with a religious message, in the Yiddish language, made by Haredi Jews from Monsey, New York.It is the first film made by Haredi Jews entirely in Yiddish.
Mendy: A Question of Faith is a 2003 film about a Hasidic Jewish man who leaves his religiously devout community in Brooklyn to experience secular life in New York City. The film was written and directed by Adam Vardy. [1] [2]