Deborah Feldman is a German-American author. She was born in New York in 1986 and grew up with her grandparents, Holocaust survivors from Hungary, in the Hasidic, strictly religious Satmar community in Williamsburg. Her mother tongue is Yiddish. She studied literature in secret and eventually broke away from the community; she later moved to Berlin with her son. Her autobiographical story “Unorthodox” became an instant New York Times bestseller, sold millions of copies, was translated into 30 languages and won an Emmy for its international film adaptation.
