Judy Brown wrote the controversial novel Hush -- a finalist for the 2011 Sydney Taylor Award for outstanding book on the Jewish experience -- under a pseudonym because of feared backlash from the Chassidic world. Brown's identity has since been revealed and she has left Chassidism. She has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine and has written for the Huffington Postand the Jewish Daily Forward. She holds a master's in creative writing and lives in New York City.
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A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centur... SEE MORE