For Berlin-based American writer-producer Anna Winger, creating the Netflix series “Unorthodox” offered a unique opportunity to tell a Jewish story in Germany. The show, which premiered March 26 on…
: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” and follows a young woman who leaves her husband and her insular ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, New York, for a new life in Berlin.Deutschland 83″ and its two follow-ups, “Deutschland 86” and “Deutschland 89,” co-created withThe series stars Israeli actress Shira Haas as Esty, who leaves an unhappy arranged marriage and travels to Berlin, home to her estranged mother and where she hopes to study music.
“We made a decision that we would only cast Jewish actors in Jewish roles, in part because of the language,” Winger says. “We wanted people who either spoke Yiddish or had a familiarity with it, had a feeling for the language. If your grandparents spoke it, then you have a feeling for it.”It was also a significant decision “given that we were producing this in Germany, where there is a long tradition of obviously Jewish material that has been produced without any Jews involved,” Winger added.
It was also important for the show’s makers to acknowledge Germany’s dark history as the origin of the Holocaust.
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