The book is a stirring account of her struggles with and ultimate rejection of her Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - an insular society of ultra-Orthodox Jews that rose in New York from the ashes of World War II. “I feel like I’ve been waiting my whole life for corona,” she said.Īnyone who’s read Feldman’s best-selling 2012 memoir, “ Unorthodox” - now the basis of a four-part Netflix series, which debuted last week - is likely to understand. And while many were out panic shopping, she hadn’t been to the market once. The day before, Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans to self-isolate in hopes of slowing the spread of coronavirus. They “believed in the end of the world, had seen the end of the world and always prepared me to live through the end of the world,” she said by telephone from her Berlin apartment. That’s how her Hasidic Holocaust survivor grandparents raised her. The writer Deborah Feldman’s pantry was already stocked for the apocalypse.
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