At the age of nineteen, she gave birth to a son. Her resultant debilitating anxiety went undiagnosed and was exacerbated by the public shame of having failed to serve her husband. On her website, Deborah Feldman describes her life after marriage as follows: “Married at age seventeen to a man she had only met for thirty minutes, and denied a traditional education – sexual or otherwise – she was unable to consummate the relationship for an entire year. She revealed what life is like trapped within a religious sect that values silence and suffering over individual freedoms. At the age of 25, she published her first book Unorthodox, which is based on her life. She was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The TV series is based on the New York Times bestseller Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman (34). It was released worldwide on 26 March 2020, exclusively on Netflix. The actors had a Yiddish coach and consultant (Eli Rosen) who trained them and who supervised the dialogues. Unorthodox was shot in Yiddish and English in New York and Berlin.
