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Schneur Zalman Newfield, Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Temple University Press, 2020, 210 pp, Price: $34.95

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  1. At some level, Degrees of Separation might be considered Newfield’s own “exit narrative.” His intellectual journey reveals the influence of an array of secular authorities (rebbes?), including Rushdie, Faulkner, Whitman, Marx, Brecht, and Michael Corleone. It would interesting, one day, to read about his own passage from the ultra-Orthodox world to the academy.

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Weber, D. Schneur Zalman Newfield, Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Temple University Press, 2020, 210 pp, Price: $34.95. Cont Jewry 41, 281–284 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-021-09377-z

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