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Title Statement | Becoming Eve: my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman / Abby Stein. |
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Author | Stein, Abby, 1991- |
Publication | New York, NY: Seal Press,2019. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | xxii, 244 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781580059169 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr04479831 |
Contents | Introduction: birth of an empire --Birth of a child --A dollhouse --A haircut --According to His will --On the playground --Seeing demons --At the edge of manhood --Holy obligations --Teachings of our fathers --A new school --Heavenly bodies --Welcome to the Catskill Mountains --Matchmaking --Tingling feelings --Audience with the Rebbe --High on mysticism --Engaged --Graphic studies --A wedding in a blizzard --Another child --The done thing --Wireless connections. |
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"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Jewish transgender people--Biography--United States |
Transgender women--Biography--United States | |
Hasidim--Biography--New York (State)--New York | |
By Name | Stein, Abby,1991- |
By Genre | Autobiographies |
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