![]() Esty is part of a specific Hasidic sect called the Satmar Jews, who are descendants from a small Hungarian village almost entirely wiped out in the Holocaust. She embodies these transformations in Yiddish and English - neither one is her native Hebrew tongue - with poise, nuance, and specificity, delivering a tour de force that makes “Unorthodox” entirely gripping from start to finish.īased on the eponymous memoir by Deborah Feldman, “Unorthodox” is set between Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and present-day Berlin. That was the challenge presented to Shira Haas, the Israeli actress whose galvanizing turn propels “ Unorthodox,” a four-part Netflix limited series about a young woman who leaves her Hasidic community behind.Īs the courageous lead character Esty, who abandons everything she knows in her search for self-actualization, Haas cycles through many different phases of her character’s journey, from childhood to marriage to her new life in Berlin. ![]() Imagine delivering a career-defining performance in a language you don’t even speak. ![]()
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