'Haart is a hustler, a born entrepreneur, charismatic enough to attract investment like a pop ingenue attracts talent scouts and a fighter.' POLLY VERNON, THE TIMES 'An irresistible read. A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extreme religious sect and her extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modelling agency Elite World Group.Ī riveting, inspiring memoir f rom the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life Season 2 of My Unorthodox Life airs on Netflix on December 2.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. on Thursday, November 10, with a Boutique Bazaar and pre-event reception in the Edison Gymnasium at the Staenberg Family Complex in Creve Coeur. Women’s Night with Julia Haart begins at 5 p.m. I think the more stories we share with each other, the more we open our hearts and minds to one another. And I think that my story is one that’s applicable to any race, to any person. … To me, literature and stories have the power to change the world. The fact that there is so much antisemitism right now, happening openly in this country, is extraordinarily frightening. We need to not just hold people accountable, but also we need to hold hands with each other and speak to one another. What unites us is so much more than what divides us, but by constantly seeing these attacks and the antisemitism that's happening, the anti-Asia hatred, all of this together, is creating divisiveness within the ethnicities so they don't gather together and fight the common enemy. Jewish women, Black women, Chinese women, Muslim women-we have all suffered a lot. We are living through a time when you have people exacerbating divisiveness and fomenting hatred, so that the ethnicities who have been racially profiled and attacked don't get together and fight against the common enemy. I think we're facing a very strong foe that understands that if they succeed in dividing us, we will not be able to win. What does it mean to you to participate in this festival that is about exploring and celebrating the Jewish experience through the written word? We as a country are also experiencing a rise in antisemitic incidents. And I see that trend happening in this country right now. I've seen and I experienced what that's like. I think we are living through a time where the rest of the world is veering to the way I lived my life, and it's pretty frightening. I think that feeling of a lack of agency or control would resonate with some people here. Missouri has a trigger law that went into effect in June. I ask because there were points in the book, when you talked about sex and reproductive health, that reminded me of what happened this year. The last time I went, I was an ultra-Orthodox teenager. I was 19, religious, with a wig on my head. It’s interesting you bring up abortion health care. Wade, and this wave of women should be in the kitchen and having babies, so many women think that they can't. … I think today, with what's happening with Roe v. The whole purpose of writing was to show people that you can change, that you can seize control of your life, that it's never too late. I meet women from every walk of life, every country, and they may not be in the fundamentalist community, but they have been taught their entire life that they can't, and they feel that it's too late and there's no more possibility of change. It's about archaic ancient laws that keep women down and that need to go. I think the biggest proof of that is that you see these laws in every kind of fundamentalist community, whether it's Mennonite or Muslim or extremist Christians or Mormons. The things that I went through have nothing to do with Judaism. What can readers of Brazen who aren’t Jewish or even religious take away from your book? Louis doesn’t have a large ultra-Orthodox population like New York does. Louis Jewish Book Festival’s Women’s Night. Brazen is the front half of Haart’s life-more about her childhood, married life in Monsey, and how she left the community, designed her own shoe line, and became creative director of the luxury intimates brand La Perla. Netflix viewers might know Haart from her hit docuseries My Unorthodox Life, which shows the formerly frum woman living in Tribeca and working as CEO of Elite World Group, a conglomerate of modeling agencies (Haart has since left that post). Now I pursue zeros of a very different kind for thousands of women around the world.” “I walked into a world in which no one knew me. “It was a journey born of such unendurable misery that I had to flee or die,” she writes.
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