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@Jim Zurer recommended this short Netflix series to me and I really liked it. It is based on the memoir of an American woman who leaves her Hasidic community in Brooklyn and goes to Berlin. The Hasidic community and life is portrayed in great detail. The woman are not educated and are married off early to start having children (to repopulate the Jewish community after the loses in the Holocaust). Yiddish is spoken in much of the series, with subtitles.
The story is about one young woman who leaves her marriage and community, claims her German citizenship based on family members killed in the Holocaust and moved to Berlin where there is a large community of American and Israeli Jews.
The main actress, Shira Haas, was in the Israeli series Shtisel.
Here is a good article about it in the LA Times.
Netflix has a “making of” for Unorthodox and it was interesting. Now I am going to read the book it was based on.
The story is about one young woman who leaves her marriage and community, claims her German citizenship based on family members killed in the Holocaust and moved to Berlin where there is a large community of American and Israeli Jews.
The main actress, Shira Haas, was in the Israeli series Shtisel.
Here is a good article about it in the LA Times.
Netflix's 'Unorthodox' went to remarkable lengths to get Hasidic Jewish customs right
The streamer's first series predominantly in Yiddish depicts the world of Hasidic Jews in painstaking detail. Here's how they did it.
www.latimes.com
Netflix has a “making of” for Unorthodox and it was interesting. Now I am going to read the book it was based on.