Überbitten

At 23, Deborah Feldman leaves the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community of the Satmar Jews in Williamsburg, New York, and thus the life she compellingly recounts in "Unorthodox." She has no option to return. She follows her great dream of living freely with her son. She leaves New York and traces the European footsteps of her beloved grandmother, who survived the Holocaust and was the only person with whom the young woman felt accepted. Ultimately, Deborah Feldman manages to put down roots, precisely in Berlin, a place associated with so many fears and prejudices by the Satmar. With striking imagery and powerful words, Deborah Feldman tells the impressive story of self-discovery and reconciliation with the past.