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All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Deen, Shulem (Author)
ISBN: 1555977057     ISBN-13: 9781555977054
Publisher: Graywolf Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Religion | Judaism - Orthodox
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2014950983
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith

Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.