Becoming Eve : my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
by Stein, Abby, 1991- (Author)
Summary
"Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a rabbini... Full description
- Introduction: birth of an empire
- Birth of a child
- A dollhouse
- A haircut
- According to His will
- On the playground
- At the edge of manhood
- Seeing demons
- Signs and signals
- Holy obligations
- Teachings of our fathers
- A new school
- Heavenly bodies
- Welcome to the Catskill Mountains
- Matchmaking
- Tingling feelings
- Audience with the rebbe
- High on mysticism
- Engaged
- Graphic studies
- A wedding in a blizzard
- Another child
- The done thing
- Wireless connections.