Books: 

• All Who Go Do Not Return, by Shulem Deen
  A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and one man’s struggles with faith, family, and community.
• Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in a Digital Age, by Ayala Fader

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities.

• Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels, by Hella Winston
  An exploration of Hasidic Jews struggling to live within their restrictive communities—and, in some cases, to carve out a new life beyond them
• Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, by Schneur Zalman Newfield

Those who exit a religion—particularly one they were born and raised in—often find themselves at sea in their efforts to transition to life beyond their community. In Degrees of Separation, Schneur Zalman Newfield, who went through this process himself, interviews seventy-four Lubavitch and Satmar ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews who left their communities.

• Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman, by Abby Stein
  The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman.
• Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood, by Jericho Vincent
  A raw and electrifying memoir about a young person’s journey from self-destruction to redemption, after cutting ties with their ultra-Orthodox Jewish family.
• Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home, by Leah Lax
  Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface.