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

• Authors: Ezra (EDT)/ Lang Cappell
• Assisted by: Ezra Cappell (Editor), Jessica Lang (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781438477251
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7725-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Suny Contemporary Jewish Liter
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Ethnic Studies, Religion - Judaism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox