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Lax, Leah
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Lax, Leah.
Hasidim.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Lesbianism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Self-realization in women.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Biography.
Arranged marriage.
Jews -- United States.
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Lax, Leah
Lax, Leah.
Hasidim.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Lesbianism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Self-realization in women.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Biography.
Arranged marriage.
Jews -- United States.
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Uncovered : how I left Hasidic life and finally came home : a memoir / by
Leah
Lax
.
by
Lax
,
Leah
She Writes Press, a division of SparkPoint Studio, LLC, 2015.
Call #:
296.08664 L425u
Subjects
Lax
,
Leah
.
Hasidim.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Lesbianism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Self-realization in women.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Biography.
Arranged marriage.
Jews -- United States.
ISBN:
9781631529955 (trade pbk.)
Description:
348 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Excerpts from this book have been published in Moment magazine, Lilith magazine, Survivor's review, Intellectual refuge, Crab Orchard review, The Double dealer, and in the anthologies 'Keep your wives away from them' (North Atlantic Books, 2010), and 'Beyond belief: the secret lives of women in extreme religion' (Seal Press, 2013)"--Title page verso.
Summary:
"In 'Uncovered,'
Leah
Lax
tells her story beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew, and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom"--From publisher.
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Autobiographies.
Memoirs.
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