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All who go do not return : a memoir / Shulem Deen.
Van Pelt Library BM198.56.S55 D44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deen, Shulem, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deen, Shulem.
- Skvira Hasidim--New York (State)--Biography.
- Skvira Hasidim.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Autobiography.
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308).
- National Jewish Book Awards - Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice, Winner, 2015
- Other Format:
- Online version: Deen, Shulem. All who go do not return
- ISBN:
- 9781555977054
- 1555977057
- OCLC:
- 879582883
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