Ultra-Orthodox Communities and Those Who Leave

With the increasing interest in the ultra-Orthodox enclaves of the contemporary Jewish world, an ever-growing list of studies, fiction, and memoirs offer readers a glimpse into these insular communities and the hardships faced by those who leave them.


The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood

This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Here and There: Leaving Chasidism, Keeping my Family

Invisible City

Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel

Peep Show

Jews of Today: A Primer on Hasidic Dress

My Name Is Asher Lev

Race, Rights, & Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969

The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories

The Mystics of Mile End

Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

Hush

The Sisters Weiss

A Seat at the Table: A Novel of Forbidden Choices

Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale

Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories From a Hassidic Household

The Pinch: A History/A Novel

Foreskin's Lament

Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination

I Am Forbidden: A Novel

Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up The Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn

Sima's Undergarments for Women

The Rabbi's Daughter

The War Within: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Threat to Democracy and the Nation

Run You Down

Jerusalem Maiden

For Young Adults


The World Outside

Strange Relations

The Life and Opinions of Amy Finawitz

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