A heartbreaking story of a young Hasidic woman who escapes her community at 16.
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Transcript:
Normally we wouldn’t have recommended it because of the title, but then we started reading it and we wouldn’t have recommended it because of the initial pages and the stories they say about it.
But then we realized. that this book is really a biography, if we want to call it that way, an x-ray, not only of the orthodox Jewish community in New York, which for many of us is something that lays far and beyond the rich, but also of the Latino, the Puerto Rican, and the black communities, because Rossi spent her initial months wandering around these communities, but her stories about the orthodox community and the Puerto Rican and black communities really give us an image of how these people live, behave, and think in today’s New York.
By the way, Rossi, I don’t know if I should give you the end of this story because Rosie, Rosie winded up being a success from all that we read about her initially we were expecting to to hear that she winded up dead in some cornerstone in some street on dark alley in New York but no she winded up having programs all throughout the radio spectrum WOMR NPR, the life story of Chef Rosie, feminist press, Queen of the Jews and the ranging and eating podcast she is doing so many things at the same time that that it’s really curious not only to see that she survived and how well she did but also to see that there is a world behind the, it should say here, the punk rock orthodox queen of the Jews and she came up finding her real roots, finding space for herself in the community and the community finding her.
So it’s a book that started very negatively but ended very positively. And for anybody wondering about something to read this summer that it’s different, that it’s obnoxious, that needs to be reviewed and read carefully this, this is the book.
The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews. I mean, more vigorously is the book that we should choose this month.