Bibliograph

Becoming Eve, my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman, Abby Stein

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Becoming Eve, my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman, Abby Stein

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Becoming Eve

Responsibility statement

Abby Stein

Sub title

my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman

Summary

Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. Without access to TV or the internet, and never taught English, she suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood into mainstream femininity -- a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, and her way of life

Target audience

adult

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