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Edition 33 (2017)

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Shulem Deen しゅれむ・でぃーん Winner

A memoir by a writer who left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, recounting the break with a life governed by faith and custom, the conflict with family, and the search for a new beginning. It quietly weighs communal pressure against the cost of freedom.

Leaving a closed community reshapes both family ties and the self.

288 pages
memoirreligioncommunityindividual freedom