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Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
- Title
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman / Abby Stein.
- Author
- Stein, Abby, 1991-
- Publication
- New York : Seal Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 244 pages; 25 cm
- 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
- Hasidim
- Jewish transgender people
- Transgender women
- Hasidim > New York (State) > New York > Biography
- New York (State) > New York
- Autobiographies
- RELIGION > Judaism > General
- United States
- Jewish transgender people > United States > Biography
- Stein, Abby, 1991-
- Biographies
- Transgender women > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- Introduction: birth of an empire -- Birth of a child -- A dollhouse -- A haircut -- According to His will -- On the playground -- At the edge of manhood -- Seeing demons -- Signs and signals -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1273
- ISBN
- 9781580059169
- 1580059163
- 9781580059176 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019016332
- 40029601389
- OCLC
- 1089497006
- Author
- Stein, Abby, 1991- author.
- Title
- Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman / Abby Stein.
- Publisher
- New York : Seal Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Stein, Abby, 1991- Becoming Eve. First edition. New York : Seal Press, [2019] 9781580059176 (DLC) 2019019987
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029601389
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1273