Susitikimas su amerikiečių kilmės vokiečių rašytoja Deborah Feldman ir jos knygos „Egzodas“ pristatymas. Dalyvauja Živilė Kropaitė-Basiulė. Renginio kalbos: LT/EN. (Balto leidybos namai)

G Deborah Feldman (b. 1986) – a writer of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. Deborah Feldman is an American-born writer, who was raised in the Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster, 2012), tells the story of her escape. The New York Times Bestselling memoir has been translated into thirty languages and it was adapted as an Emmy-award-wining series for Netflix in 2020. Her second book Exodus was published in 2014. An updated and expanded edition was titled Exodus, Revisited (Plume, 2021). Deborah Feldman lives in Berlin, where she moved in 2014. Feldman quickly adapted to speaking and writing in German, due to its similarity with her native Yiddish language. Her first German-language novel Judenfetisch was published by Luchterhand Verlag in 2023.