Meet the sociologist who left his Chabad community and wrote a pathbreaking study of ex-Hasidim – Forward
admin | May 14, 2021
Read this article in Yiddish When Schneur Zalman Newfield studied at Chabad yeshivas, everyone thought he was a pious young man who had little knowledge of the outside world. They couldnt have imagined that Newfield had secretly assembled a stash of contraband books - modern Yiddish literature, science and history texts and even Russian novels - which he feared would lead to his expulsion. The scenario might sound like something youd read in the memoirs of a Jewish intellectual raised before the Russian revolution.
