All who go do not return : a memoir / Shulem Deen.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]Description: 310 pages 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781555977054
- 296.8/332 23
- BM198.56.S45
- Cmdb.09
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.