All who go do not return
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Shulem Deen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781555977054
Subjects: Jewish heretics; Skvira Hasidim; Biography
Description: Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world.
Notes: Various printings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-308).