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March 24, 2021

Hard Data Shatter Myths about Those Who Leave Orthodoxy

Beyond Unorthodox.

While the popular memoir about leaving the ḥasidic fold is almost as old as Ḥasidism itself, the past decade has seen somewhat of a boom in this genre. But Schneur Zalman Newfield’s Degrees of Separation provides something these works do not: a measured sociological study of the phenomenon. Moshe Krakowski writes in his review:

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March 24, 2021

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