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Mar 22, 2020 · Airing March 26, the unprecedented German-produced, based-on-true-life, mini-series in Yiddish is powered by Israeli actress Shira Haas and an explosive female creative team
Apr 9, 2020 · Rachel Syme reviews the new Netflix miniseries “Unorthodox,” starring the Israeli actress Shira Haas, about a woman leaving religious life in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg.
Haas was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, [11] [12] to a Polish Jewish family. Two of her grandparents are Holocaust survivors ; [ 13 ] her grandfather was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II , whereas her grandmother had immigrated to Israel from Hungary . [ 14 ]
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Unorthodox tells the story of Esty Shapiro (Israeli actor Shira Haas), a 19-year-old newly married woman who was born and raised in the Satmar Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York. But as Esty says, "Williamsburg is not America". The people in Esty's community are ultra-Orthodox adherents to the Jewish faith — Yiddish-speakers and des...
The series is based on Deborah Feldman's 2012 bestselling memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. Feldman grew up in Williamsburg's Satmar Hasidic community, and by age 17 she was married to a Talmudic scholar. In The Guardian, Feldman wrote that "as a woman in the Hasidic community, my singular contribution to society had ...
New York Times television critic James Poniewozik recommended the show, describing it as "a story of personal discovery with the intensity of a spy thriller". Jen Chaney in Vulturewrites that Unorthodox "feels right for this moment" and that "Esty is undergoing an incremental rebirth after being shut away from the wider world for a very long time. ...
Besides Deborah Feldman's book, there are many true stories — including from the ABC and the New York Times— of people who have left Orthodox Jewish communities. At times, Unorthodox feels restrained in comparison to these. For example, the 2017 Netflix documentary One of Us, which is about three people who are trying to leave their Hasidic communi...
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Jul 28, 2020 · Israeli actress Shira Haas has been nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in “Unorthodox,” which follows an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn woman who leaves her community for a new life in Berlin.
Mar 26, 2020 · Unorthodox, an Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries, tells the riveting story of 19-year-old Esther Shapiro's (Shira Haas) journey out of her insular, religious community in Brooklyn, toward a secular and independent life in Berlin.
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Mar 19, 2020 · She is played by Shira Haas, the young Israeli actress who made a name for herself as Ruchami Weiss, the fervently frum teenager in another Netflix drama, Shtisel.
