| Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman Contributor(s): Stein, Abby (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1549131958 ISBN-13: 9781549131950 Publisher: Seal Books OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt - Biography & Autobiography | Jewish |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 5.7" (0.45 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. 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 to mainstream femininity-a radical choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life. Powerful in the truths it reveals about biology, culture, faith, and identity, Becoming Eve poses the enduring question: How far will you go to become the person you were meant to be? |