Writer goes undercover in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim haredi community – Tuvia Tenenbom has gone into communities before for his books, like Catch the Jew!, The Lies they Tell and The Taming of the Jews. But this time he went as himself, not Toby the journalist. | JPost

It was just a matter of time before the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag approached author and journalist Tuvia Tenenbom with a request to go live in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood under the guise of a journalist, as he did in numerous previous situations, where he went undercover into closed communities so that he could write about them.