A 19-year-old girl raised in the Jewish community, Esty (Shira Haasas), leaves New York and moves to Berlin, refusing to marry a man chosen by the family. In Germany, she tends to find freedom by already sailing in a secular world, very different from her previous life.
"Unorthodox" is a German-American mini-series that premiered on Netflix on March 26. The series is based on the autobiography of author Deborah Feldman, "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots" (Anticonformist: Scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots).
Offending. Hasidism, sometimes pronounced as Kasidism, is a Jewish religious group that spread to the territory of Western Ukraine in the 18th century.
Who Deborah Feldman is: Feldman was raised by grandparents, both Holocaust survivors, after the mother was expelled from their community while the father suffered from mental disorders and could not be cared for. Deborah was denied typical American education, but that didn't stop her from being curious about the world. She wiped books under the bed and read them secretly.
"Unorthodox" is a story of rebellion and ardent desire for freedom. At one point, Esty, played by Shira Haasas portraying Deborah, says: ?God expected a lot from me. Now I have to find my way. ?
