Off the Derech Leaving Orthodox Judaism

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

About the author

Ezra Cappell is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Inter-American Jewish Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ezra Cappell (Editor), Jessica Lang (Editor), Lang Jessica (Editor)
• Authors: Ezra (EDT)/ Lang Cappell, Ezra Lang Cappell
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.02.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism
• EAN: 9781438477244
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7724-4
• Pages: 451
• Series: Suny Contemporary Jewish Liter; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
• Subjects: RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Orthodox Judaism