I (unfortunately) read this on shabbos.
Leaving Eastern Parkway, by @matthew_daub, is a truly shameful work or #hasidsploitation.
Completely divorced from reality, eye rollingly bad in depicting Lubavitchers... It's a mind boggling that no one stopped to say, fix this
Leaving Eastern Parkway, by @matthew_daub, is a truly shameful work or #hasidsploitation.
Completely divorced from reality, eye rollingly bad in depicting Lubavitchers... It's a mind boggling that no one stopped to say, fix this
I think there's a kernel of an interesting story perhaps about a nice Jewish boy, hardened by the streets of Brooklyn, finding his way in the Midwest.
None of that needed to create stilted, lazy ugly pictures of chasidic Jews
None of that needed to create stilted, lazy ugly pictures of chasidic Jews
Every Chasid, without exception, is a bad person in this book. Offensively bad. Even people who try to do good, only do it for mitzvos as if they were points.
Every sera is completely divorced from the reality of what a Lubavitcher life looks like.
Every sera is completely divorced from the reality of what a Lubavitcher life looks like.
And it's lazy. Just lazy
I started taking pictures of mistakes, while reading during the week. little details that were off... But quickly realized I'd have to photograph every page. Anyone who knows 1990s crown heights can easily spor a dozen mistakes in this pic
I started taking pictures of mistakes, while reading during the week. little details that were off... But quickly realized I'd have to photograph every page. Anyone who knows 1990s crown heights can easily spor a dozen mistakes in this pic
The author seems to think Lubavitchers are unable to speak colloquial English -- what the main character calls "American."
This largely expresses itself, inexplicably, as an inability to use contractions. The main character rues his inability to speak American dozens of times.
This largely expresses itself, inexplicably, as an inability to use contractions. The main character rues his inability to speak American dozens of times.
It's not as if the Yiddish is any better. The characters through the handful of Yiddish words English speaking Jews of a certain generation use - often written as an American unfamiliar with Yiddish would write them.
Fakakte, kinnehurah, shanda, shmendrik.
Fakakte, kinnehurah, shanda, shmendrik.
This grab is from Yossi Teitelbaum, an 18 year old in 1994 - speaking like no normal Lubavitcher ever.
In reality the author doesn't seem to know Lubavitchers at all.
There is no shlichus, no mivtzoyim. Lubavitcher yeshivah students regularly fly around the world - to yeshivos, to shluchim, to help Jews... The book seems to think leaving Eastern Parkway is a rarity
There is no shlichus, no mivtzoyim. Lubavitcher yeshivah students regularly fly around the world - to yeshivos, to shluchim, to help Jews... The book seems to think leaving Eastern Parkway is a rarity
That Zev, the main character, first encounters Antisemitism in Urbana, Illinois - instead of the streets of Crown Heights... When the book's own timeline would have had him in Crown Heights during the (unmentioned)1991 Crown Heights Riot... Is inexplicable.
I could go on... But simply put, this shameful work isn't worth it.
It's just another shameful entry in the alienation of frum Jews that people read and assume is based on fact.
It's just another shameful entry in the alienation of frum Jews that people read and assume is based on fact.
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