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Abby Stein Was Raised In A Hasidic Jewish Community In Brooklyn, Profoundly Isolated In A Culture That Lives According To The Laws And Practices Of An Eighteenth-century Eastern European Enclave, Speaking Only Yiddish And Hebrew And Shunning Modern Life. Stein Was Born As The First Son In A Rabbinical Dynastic Family, Poised To Become A Leader Of The Next Generation Of Hasidic Jews. But Stein Felt Certain At A Young Age That She Was A Girl. Without Access To Tv Or The Internet, And Never Taught English, She Suppressed Her Desire For A New Body While Looking For Answers Wherever She Could Find Them, From Forbidden Religious Texts To Smuggled Secular Examinations Of Faith. Finally, She Orchestrated A Personal Exodus From Ultra-orthodox Manhood Into Mainstream Femininity--a Radical Choice That Forced Her To Leave Her Home, Her Family, And Her Way Of Life-- Introduction: Birth Of An Empire -- Birth Of A Child -- A Dollhouse -- A Haircut -- According To His Will -- On The Playground -- At The Edge Of Manhood -- Seeing Demons -- Signs And Signals -- Holy Obligations -- Teachings Of Our Fathers -- A New School -- Heavenly Bodies -- Welcome To The Catskill Mountains -- Matchmaking -- Tingl

Author

Abby Chava Stein

Publisher

New York: Seal Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580059169

Subjects

Judaism, Social Science, Religion

Rating

4.4 / 5 (958 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14