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Abby Chava Stein: Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman

Memoir, 272 pages, 2019)

The coming-of-age memoir of a tenth-generation Hasidic Jew, descended from the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidism) and destined to become a rabbinic leader who, despite the consequences, embraces her identity as a woman.

Kirkus Review

Review by Joshua Lewis Berg, Humanist.com, 17 December 17, 2019

Review by Edith Tolchin, New York Journal of Books, November 12, 2019

Rose Minutaglio interviews Abby Stein, Elle, November 15, 2019

Alex Galbinski profiles Abby Stein, Jewish News, November 28, 2019

 Video interview (7 minutes) Today Show, Nov 19, 2019