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Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

Tekijä: Abby Stein

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"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"--… (lisätietoja)
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An unsatisfying and routinely written memoir about a transgendered orthodox Jewish boy and her coming out journey in becoming a woman. We don't need to read about rigidness of being Orthodox. We are more interested in her revelations to friends and family which we are only given only tidbits. Plus, Abby Stein's book fails to explain how she was able to marry another woman and consumate the marriage. The ending seems rushed with a cop out "to be continued" coda. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
Pretty standard trans memoir, but the insight into Chassidic Brooklyn was very interesting!

Edit: It's pretty funny that this is apparently a mashup of a bog-standard Off The Derekh* memoir and a bog-standard trans memoir, and reviewers are mostly reacting positively to the part they're not already familiar with. TBH, good for her. She had to go through it, and there's clearly a hunger for both narratives from the cis/non-frum mainstream, so she deserves to take the easy money and run!

* (off the path; leaving orthodox jewish observance) ( )
  caedocyon | Jul 18, 2023 |
See my notes on my blog www.bookishinthemitten.com.

I spent most of this book waiting for that point when Abby came out as transgender, treating the text prior to this as exposition while waiting for her to get the point.

This was faulty reading on my part. I wish I had realized early on that while it was the story of Abby's gender transition, and I believe just as importantly for Abby, the story of her path out of her Hasidic community and into a Judaism she can embrace, and which embraces her. ( )
  CatherineB61 | May 31, 2023 |
Becoming Eve is both a memoir which recounts Abby Stein's early life as a member of a Hasidic Jewish family and her realisation that she's a trans woman, and an explanation of a sheltered and separationist religious community—in her case, the Hasidic communities of Brooklyn—to secular non-members. English is not Stein's first language, nor even her second, so I'm willing to grant her a lot of leeway on her prose on that basis, but while I found this an interesting and even important read, I didn't think that it was that good as a book. It's at times fairly surface/basic in terms of analysis—as if it was being written with say a teenage audience in mind—and there's surprisingly little in here at all about her actual transition or the two years or so leading up to it. I would have liked to read more exploration on Stein's part about what happened during that period, especially since she hints that the period between the birth of her son and her leaving Williamsburg was a time of intense dysphoria/crisis, but I presume that this is at least in part to protect her ex-wife and son. ( )
  siriaeve | Sep 20, 2021 |
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"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"--

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