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Apr 27, 2020 · Israeli actor Shira Haas opens up about overnight stardom for her role in Netflix’s new show ‘Unorthodox’, learning Yiddish, shaving her head and celebrating Passover in quarantine.
Jun 29, 2020 · Before she came to fame on Netflix in the hit Israeli series “Shtisel” and the miniseries “Unorthodox,” actress Shira Haas starred in the acclaimed 2018 drama ‘Broken Mirrors,” for which she...
- Gerri Miller
Jun 17, 2021 · After making a big splash in “Shtisel,” and then, “Unorthodox” — the 2020 miniseries about a young woman who leaves her Hasidic community in Brooklyn — Haas has taken on a new role: playing 17-year-old Vika in Ruthy Pribar’s new Israeli film “Asia,” which premiered in the U.S. last week.
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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...
- Hannah Reich
“Shtisel” and “Unorthodox” star Shira Haas discussed her latest film, the Ophir-winning (and potentially Oscar-nominated) drama “Asia” at the InFocus: Israeli Cinema film festival, appearing...
Jul 2, 2020 · Shira Haas has catapulted herself into the zeitgeist with her moving performance as Esther “Esty” Shapiro on Netflix‘s “Unorthodox.”
Jul 7, 2020 · Featuring Yiddish dialogue and careful re-creations of Satmar Jewish rituals, it became an unlikely sleeper hit, and Haas’ mesmerizing performance as Esty, a quiet character with a wildly...
