Sztokman’s book is informed by her interviews with 84 survivors of alleged abuse, and includes around 200 additional survivor testimonies gleaned through various Jewish archives. “When Rabbis Abuse” attempts to understand the manipulative personality type of abusive clergy, their methods and means of exploiting victims within Jewish spaces, and the ways in which their behavior is protected or excused by Jewish power structures.

https://www.jta.org/2022/06/22/culture/a-new-book-explores-abusive-rabbis-and-the-jewish-institutional-culture-that-protects-them

“And that’s a big, gaping hole.”