![]() ![]() ![]() “It wasn’t an easy decision for me,” she admitted. In a 2012 interview with the New York Post, Unorthodox author Deborah Feldman talked about what it was really like to leave her ultra-Orthodox community. Author Deborah Feldman | Tristar Media/Getty Images ‘Unorthodox’ memoir author Deborah Feldman on her real life after living in the Satmar Jewish community After they found out Feldman was publishing a book, the Unorthodox author began receiving threats and hate mail. Much like Esty’s relatives in the Netflix show, Feldman’s real-life family members were not too happy with her for leaving the community. After the memoir was published in 2012, it was later developed into the Netflix series that’s airing on the platform today. The character of Esty is based off of the author Deborah Feldman, who wrote a book called called Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. Unorthodox, the Netflix series starring Israeli actress Shira Haas, is about a Hasidic Jewish woman named Esty. ![]()
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