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Author anouk markovits and her 14 brothers and sisters were raised in the most insular and fundamentalist sect of hasidic jews, the satmar. Anouk markovits s i am forbidden contrasts the fates of a hasidic familys two daughters, one who breaks with tradition to pursue a life of intellectual and emotional freedom, the other who cleaves to convention only to find her childless marriage is leading her to consider a course of action that falls well outside her religious beliefs. There are moments of great sorrow and horror in the opening pages, as two young children survive the pogroms in transylvania in 1939 and their lives intersect. Five years later, josef rescues a young girl, mila, whose parents are killed in.
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