Careful, Beauties Ahead!
My Year With the Ultra-Orthodox
Events currently take place in Israel, Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic. Coming to NYC mid 2024.
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“Gripping, extremely funny, mercilessly direct, this first-person report – subjective, pointed and biting as one could expect from the suspenders-wearing chubby man – is rousing and very human.” – NDR (Germany)
“With a lot of humor, and in countless anecdotes, Tuvia Tenenbom opens the doors to a world that doesn’t reveal much about itself at first.” – Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany)
“He provokes, but he also has a lot of humor.” – Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany)
“Extraordinary, profound, enlightening, and entertaining.” – Der Spiegel (Germany)
“A fascinating in-depth journey of ultra-Orthodox existence.” – Walla! (Israel)
“Tuvia Tenenbom has written a fascinating book, shedding light on the world of ultra-Orthodox Jews. The intensity of Jerusalem, evident to the casual visitor of the city, builds up in the reader the more he reads this book. The tourist, who will hopefully come to Jerusalem again soon, will now see the people of Mea Shearim with totally different eyes.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
“Superb! Tenenbom is the funniest, most entertaining writer in Israel.” – Channel 13 TV (Israel)
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Careful, Beauties Ahead!
Tuvia Tenenbom, son and grandson of ultra-Orthodox rabbis, left the fold as a very young man. Decades later he comes back, living for over a year in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, arguably the most authentic ultra-Orthodox community anywhere in the world. Tenenbom, the Artistic Director of the Jewish Theater of New York, wanted to know how the Orthodox culture and way of life had changed, if it had, and how restrictive it is these days in a wider world that is itself increasingly restrictive. To answer this question, and many others, he became one of them again, doing what they do: praying with them at synagogues and studying with them at yeshivas, eating with them, singing with them, joining them for Sabbath meals, driving with them to the graves of their holy rabbis, chatting with their spiritual leaders, and all the while speaking God’s language, Yiddish. In time, he gained their trust, people opened up to him, and their world of faith revealed itself in all its fascination and contradictions. Careful, Beauties Ahead! is a spiritual journey deep into the world of faith, packed with Jewish humor, Jewish fears, Jewish wisdom, and Jewish traditions.
Careful, Beauties Ahead!, aka as God Speaks Yiddish, is a book, a film, and a theatrical event that played out in outstanding theaters and film festivals in both Germany and Austria - and soon in the USA.
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