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Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-05-08 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Moishe and Chips Gold, Belzer Hasidim, and other family members. (Part 5) 5/8/1994 Terms you may encounter: Shtrayml: Fur hat worn by Hasidic men on the Sabbath and holidays. 00:00:05 - Interview with Golds. Another son talks about how he was matched with his wife and how they received the Belzer Rebbe's blessing for the match. What one looks for in a match: a respected and known and prosperous family, involved in the community. Whether one feels some sort of rapport with the prospective mate. 00:04:59 - Chips Gold about how it's important to have a spotless house when making a match for daughters. 00:05:43 - Oldest Gold son: First time his father took him to Shabbos with Belzer Rebbe and Belz Hasidim was a spiritual experience for him and he knew he wanted to be a Hasid. It entailed negotiation with his wife. The Rebbe cautioned him to go slowly and was worried he would alienate non-Hasidic siblings. 00:10:15 - Another son about being attracted to the fervor of Hasidic prayer. (Fragment) 00:11:15 - One important element of Hasidism is the doing of more than is required. Another is the imbuing of daily life with joy. 00:13:01 - Chips Gold: About how the Rebbe and his wife are like family. That Hasidism is about a feeling of belonging. Her brother-in-law: Hasidism is about cohesion, everyone going to the same besmedresh (house of prayer), praying in the same way. The grandchildren are asked questions by the filmmaker but are too shy to say much. 00:16:34 - Chips Gold: She comes from a family with Satmar Hasidic background but it was an adjustment for her when her husband started becoming more Hasidic. 00:18:45 - More about the role of joy in Hasidic life and how Hasidim believe that everything that happens is meant to happen. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Munkacs Hasidim Celebrating Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 2/25/1994 00:10:32 - (Partial audio) Shot from women's balcony: Munkacs Rebbe dancing in the Munkacs synagogue in a circle of men, some in costume. He dances with some. Boys and men watching. Girls and women watch from balcony. 00:16:39 - Shots of crowd. Young boy on Munkacs Rebbe's lap. A cup of wine is poured from a wine fountain. Other children and men clamber onto the giant tish (table). The rest of this sequence is filmed from the women's balcony without audio. Cups of wine blessed by the Rebbe are handed out. A crowd of men surround the Rebbe and help him put on his fur coat. Some kiss his hand. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 2/25/1993 00:00:27 - (No audio) Morning street scenes in Williamsburg: Hasidic men, women, children. Some children dressed in costume for Purim, including two dressed as white-bearded rebbes. 00:07:04 - Man going to or coming from morning prayer. Other men entering the entrance of what may be a shtibl, a small Hasidic house of prayer. More street scenes. Stores on Lee Avenue. 00:10:33 - Elevated subway train near Williamsburg Bridge and Peter Luger Steak House. Roebling Street. 00:12:50 - Children dressed as cows and bunnies. Store sign: "We specialize in Succah awnings." More street scenes. People unloading luggage from a bus. Police officer. Overpass over Brooklyn Queens expressway. Keap Street. 00:19:28 - Tall man in a costume. Child dressed as Fidel Castro. Child waving American flag. Three girls in identical coats. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Chanting of megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) a in Ger shtibl (small Hasidic house of prayer) (Part 2) 2/24/1994 00:00:02 - Men and boys, some in costume, listen to the reading of the megillah in the Ger shtibl. When Haman's name is mentioned, boys shake noisemakers or throw down firecracker poppers to drown out his name. 00:13:58 - (No audio) Little girls in costume and women listening to the reading of the megillah in a hallway. 00:14:50 - Continuation of the reading of the megillah. Women and girls listen from behind the mechitsa (divider that marks off a women's section in a synagogue). 00:22:21 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Children in costume for Purim, delivering shalekhmones. Celebration of Purim in the home of the Lubart family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 2) 2/25/1994 Terms you may encounter: Purim: Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. . Sholekhmones: Food baskets given as gifts on Purim. 00:00:11 - (Partial audio) Children in costume for Purim in Borough Park. Menachem Daum in conversation with Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz (?) Lubart children and other children delivering sholekhmones. Arrive at home of grandparents. Sign on door: Soyfer (Scribe) - Tefillin, Mezuzahs, Megilot. Rabbi M. Lubart. 00:09:21 - Short interview (in English) with girl dressed as strawberry. Menachem with a boy collecting for charity, in conversation with a woman, possibly a neighbor. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Celebration of Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) with the Bobover Rebbe and his followers. (Part 2) 2/25/1994 00:00:00 - (Audio begins at 4:19) Purim in the Bobover Synagogue: crowds of men and boys, the Bobover Rebbe eating, man playing trombone-like instrument, men and boys singing. A call and response: The Rebbe chanting and the crowd responding with a nigun (traditional melody). 00:14:02 - Performers waiting in the wings. Crowds. Police. Behind the bleachers. Women in the women's balcony. Men and boys with their arms around each other. Boys and men perched on top of bookshelves. 00:20:09 - Performers: singer. Audience, including two police officers. 00:22:19 - Audio only. Wild sound. Rebbe speaking, men singing nigun. [Tape runs out of space for remaining wild sound] View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1905-06-15 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Street scenes and signs during Passover, 1993. 00:00:01 - (No audio) Signs and street scenes: A store that will be closed on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). A lamppost advertising a "Pesach Spectacle." Two small boys walking with their father. A woman selling flowers. Hasidic men. A young woman wearing a shaytl (wig). . 00:01:28 - (No audio) Passersby: Woman wearing sheitl and hat. Sign: Yochsin Institute: Research in Jewish Roots. Kosher Dairy Luncheonette. Moshe's Fruit Paradise. Posted times for morning and afternoon prayers. A kosher store under the supervision of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy. 00:05:08 - (No audio) Signs: Goldberg Pesach Grocery. Rally in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 92nd birthday. Ad for soda company. A lecture for women on preparation for Passover by Rav Label Katz. Ad for kosher for Passover toiletries. A play at Brooklyn Academy of Music: Blik un tsurik. 00:10:19 - Kosher soap in a window display. Menachem Daum and his sons shopping in a Passover store. One of the sons reads out the shopping list and explains what makes something kosher for Passover. Other shoppers, shelves with products.Sign advertising Afikomen special on tapes and books. 00:10:28 - (No audio) Outside Goldberg's Pesach Grocery: passersby, girl with full shopping cart, people leaving store with shopping bags. 00:14:45 - (No audio) Signs: Pesach spectacle: Torah Tots. Das Torah of our Gedolei Yisroel: Proper Dress in Accordance with Halacha [Jewish law]: poster urging women to dress modestly. 00:18:06 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. 00:00:04 - (No audio) Street scenes in Willamsburg on Purim (Hooper Street): Children in costume, men in shtraymls, familiies, women. People carrying sholekhmones (holiday gift baskets. 00:11:19 - More street scenes in Williamsburg on Purim. Twin towers (World Trade Center) visible from over the river in Manhattan. A street near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 00:13:45 - Housewares store with Purim costumes for sale in window. More Purim street scenes. 00:17:00 - Crowds watch Neturei Karta (an anti-Israel Hasidic group) burning an Israeli flag. 00:19:48 - Lee Avenue, Williamsburg: Purim street scene in front of Tiferes Heymishe Bakery. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Williamsburg and Borough Park street scenes. Men studying Talmud. Inside the Satmar-owned B&H Photo in Manhattan. 0:00:24 - Satmar butcher shop in Williamsburg. Other stores and Hasidic shopkeepers. Signs, including Yiddish sign advertising carpet cleaning. Street sign: Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum Place.Street scenes. Storefront: Zeldy's Place (Family Dry Goods Center). Borough Park. Street sign: Bobov Promenade. 00:06:19 - Men studying Talmud. 00:07:41 - B & H Photo: Hasidim behind the counter and customers. Hasidic man taking deliveries outside the store. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Williamsburg street scenes. Hasidim on the subway. 00:00:35 - Williamsburg: Special express buses for Hasidim, street scenes under the elevated train tracks. Hasidim and others going into the subway, at Marcy Avenue station. Hasidim on the train. Hasidic men reading The New York Times, Yiddish newspaper. Views of Manhattan, including World Trade Towers, from windows of the train. 00:18:28 - Williamsburg: stores and store-keepers, shoppers. Yiddish and Hebrew signs. Wilson Street. Delivery truck for J & J kosher dairy products. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Williamsburg street scenes. Special busses for Hasidim who work in Manhattan. B & H Photo. New York City's Diamond District. 00:00:16 - Williamsburg: Monsey Trails Bus. Hasidim on an overpass over the expressway. Highway signs. 00:03:26 - Avenue of the Americas near 16th Street in Manhattan. X-rated video store. Hasidim crossing the street, getting out of buses. Entering B & H Photo. Hasidic men on the subway, emerging at 47th Street, the Diamond District. Street scenes, including Hasidic women, 47th Street. Special bus to Boro Park, Monsey. Hasidic man on mobile phone. 00:13:47 - HIghway overpass, Lee Avenue, Williamsburg View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1905-06-15 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Tashlich (a ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah along the banks of a river or stream) in Prospect Park . The Bobover Rebbe arrives to perform tashlich. Interview with Afro-American man about Hasidim. (Part 2) 1993 00:00:13 - Bobover Hasidim saying tashlich in Prospect Park. Boys climbing a lamppost. The Bobover Rebbe is escorted to his car (about 5:30). Men, but also women and children. 00:11:09 - Interview with African-American man, a park worker, in Prospect Park: About how he felt disrespected by the Hasidim he encountered that day and also that the Hasidim did not proceed with performing their ritual in a respectful way. About how disturbed he was by how fearfully the Hasidic children reacted to him and his worry about what implications this might have for interactions between Hasidic Jews and others in the future. Doesn't excuse antisemitism but says it's sometimes provoked by Hasidic arrogance. About how he was almost run over by a Hasid in a car and it made him think of Gavin Cato. About how Jews are arrogant because they have political and cultural power and therefore they have carte blanche. 00:19:20 - About Hasidic/Jewish "spiritual arrogance" and how it plants the seeds of "violence." About a conversation he had with a Hasidic Jew that offended him and which he found "paternal." In response to filmmaker's question, says he also doesn't approve of Nation of Islam arrogance either. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn performing "shlogn kaporas," a rite involving live chickens that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur. Hasidic men and boys building a sukkah for Sukkot, a harvest festival commemorating the temporary shelters used by the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness. (Part 1) 00:00:34 - Men, women, and children performing shlogn kaporas. 00:15:28 - Storefront: Hadar Judaic & Religious Articles. 00:15:33 - School bus with yeshiva students: Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov & Bnos Yakov of Pupa. 00:15:52 - Children looking out a window. 00:18:10 - Hasidic men and boys building a sukkah for the holiday of Sukkot. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn performing "shlogn kaporas," a rite a rite involving live chickens that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur. Hasidic Jews performing the rite of tashlich (a ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah along the banks of a river or stream) in Pelham Bay, New York. (Part 2) 00:00:49 - Woman performing shlogn kaporas, a rite involving live chickens, on the eve of Yom Kippur. 00:02:17 - Sites for shlogn kaporas, a rite involving live chickens performed on the eve of Yom Kippur, next to an auto repair shop in Borough Park and in other locations in Brooklyn. 00:04:57 - Hasidic Jews performing the rite of tashlich on Rosh Hashanah in Pelham Bay near a Toys R Us store. Audio only: Prayer for tashlich. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic Jews performing the rite of tashlich (a ritual performed on Rosh Hashanah along the banks of a river or stream) in Pelham Bay, New York, and "shlogn kaporas," a rite involving live chickens that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur, in Brooklyn. Yisrael Lipschitz of the Hasidic Actors Guild making a documentary in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 00:00:51 - Hasidic Jews, including children, performing the rite of tashlich on Rosh Hashanah in Pelham Bay near a Toys R Us store. (Sporadic audio.) (Part 3) 00:09:16 - Yisrael Lipschitz speaking into a mike, explains the rite of tashlich, as a film crew records him. (Several takes, snd many shots include the film crew). 00:12:02 - Yisrael Lipschitz in Prospect Park, removing fake payos (sidelocks worn by Orthodox Jewish men) and then walking away. 00:12:28 - Hasidic and other Orthodox Jews, including children performing the rite of tashlich on Rosh Hashanah in Pelham Bay near a Toys R Us store. 00:22:07 - Hasidic families on 16th Avenue in Brooklyn performing shlogn kaporas, a rite involving live chickens, on the eve of Yom Kippur. 00:26:46 - Audio only: Man (Yisrael Lipschitz?) in Prospect Park explaining that he's making a documentary feature about the Hasidic Actors Guild. Explains that his payos (sidelocks) aren't real. Says he produces films for Orthodox Jews. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Children in costume for Purim, Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, delivering sholekhmones (holiday food baskets). Celebration of Purim by the Lubart family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 3) Reading of the megillah (Scroll of Esther) in a synagogue in Borough Park. (Part 1) 2/25/1994 00:00:00 - Lubart children and others in costume for Purim setting off poppers and delivering sholekhmones. Fancy sholekhmones baskets and packages, including one from filmmaker Menachem Daum's family. Other Borough Park street scenes. 00:13:50 - Children playing with sparklers. 00:15:48 - Lubart children and others in costume setting off poppers and delivering sholekhmones. 00:16:34 - Men at morning prayer in a synagogue in Borough Park on Purim. Bottles of wine and liquor as per the holiday commandment to drink and be merry. Reading of the megillah. Feet are stamped when Haman's name is mentioned. Women's gallery. Edit View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Reading of the megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) in a synagogue in Borough Park. (Part 2). Purim feast at the home of the Lubarts, Ger Hasidim. (Part 4) 2/25/1994 00:00:06 - Men saying morning prayers. Reading of the megillah at a synagogue 00:01:46 - (No audio) Street scenes in Borough Park on Purim. People delivering sholekhmones (food baskets given as gifts on Purim). Remains of fire crackers in the snow. 00:02:30 - Purim sudeh (feast) at the Lubart home. Grandparents, parents, grandchildren. Small boy costumed as girl. His mother explains that he has not yet had his upshern (ritual marking a boy's first haircut). Men and boys sing Purim songs. 00:11:10 - Grandfather Rabbi Lubart delivers a sermon on Purim about all Jews having the potential to be Mordechai, the Jews remaining a distinct people though dispersed all over the world, and other themes. (Yiddish) 00:17:58 - Grandson and grandfather (Yiddish). Men and boys sing Purim songs. 00:24:17 - Audio only. Wild sound. 24:27: Grandfather's Lubart's sermon continued. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Fish store in Borough Park on the eve of Purim, Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costume. (Part 1) Interviews with fishmonger Nuta Kaufman, a Satmar Hasid, and other employees. 2/24/1994 00:07:07 - (No audio) Nuta Kaufman cutting fish. Customers in the store. Men drinking schnapps. 00:10:30 - Interview with Kaufman while he is cutting cod. (English) About outreach to Russian Jews, provision of food to the poor. (Yiddish) 00:16:08 - Kaufman coaches a man off camera to say a blessing before he takes a drink of schnapps. He explains (n Yiddish) that people are gathering outside for food care packages that he is distributing before the holiday of Purim in the spirit of sholekhmones (food baskets given as gifts on Purim). 00:18:42 - (No audio) People outside waiting for holiday food care packages. (Audio) Kaufman says that he is appearing on camera only because it's helping other Jews (the filmmakers) make a living. (Yiddish). 00:19:53 - A younger Hasidic man explains more in English about the distribution of holiday food packages by Yeshues Yisroel, a charitable organization. A conversation in Yiddish between Menachem Daum and Kaufman shot through the window in which he tells a story about a divorce (get). People waiting outside for sholekhmones. 00:22:49 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Purim feast at the home of the Lubarts, Ger Hasidim. (Part 5) Celebration of Purim with the Bobover Rebbe and his followers. (Part 5) Borough Park street scenes. 2/25/1994. Terms you may encounter: Purim: Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. Sholekhmones: Food baskets given as gifts on Purim. Upshern: Ritual marking a boy's first haircut. 00:00:34 - At Purim sudeh (feast) at Lubart home. Daughter or daughter-in-law talks about upcoming upshern of her son. Informal interview with Grandmother Lubart: her husband, who became a refugee in Shanghai, is the only survivor of his family, who were murdered in the Holocaust. About how she was matched up with him. She is writing a book about her mother, who was self-taught, respected by rabbis, and an inspiration to everyone. 00:03:35 - The Lubart children playing in their grandparents' home. 00:06:26 - (No audio) Bobover Rebbe cutting challah at festive Purim meal in Bobov Synagogue. 00:11:23 - (No audio) Children in Borough Park delivering sholekhmones. One child dressed as a Torah. Street scenes. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Purim store in Brooklyn. Chanting of megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) in a Ger shtib (small Hasidic house of prayer) (Part 1) 2/24/1994 00:00:00 - Purim store with crowds of children and other customers buying costumes. Interview with boy who explains how Purim will be celebrated by the reading of the megillah. 00:10:21 - Additional interview with same boy about the store having a great selection of costumes and fire crackers. 00:11:14 - Costumes and other merchandise, customers. 00:13:12 - Interview with store owner or employee. 00:14:58 - (No audio) Street scene and front of store. 00:15:23 - (No audio) Outside Ger shtibl. 00:15:50 - (Partial audio) Inside Ger shtibl. Boys in costume and men gathering for the reading of the megillah . Chanting of the megillah. 00:22:34 - Audio only. Chanting of the megillah. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Fish store in Borough Park on the eve of Purim, Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. (Part 2) Interviews with fishmonger Nuta Kaufman, a Satmar Hasid, and other employees. 2/24/1994 00:00:00 - (Partial audio) Nuta Kaufman, the fishmonger. People (many Russian-speakers) outside Yaffa Fish Store getting holiday food care packages from Yeshuos Yisroel (Salvation of Israel). An argument breaks out. 00:06:22 - Inside the fish store, interview with Kaufman: talks about Satmar outreach work in Ukraine (under auspices of Yeshuos Yisroel). There is a school, mikvah (ritual bath), financial support from Hasidic community in America. Explains that he is a Satmar Hasid but is interested in aid to all Jews. (Yiddish) 00:10:08 - Kaufman and employees of store at work. 00:10:47 - Interview with Kaufman: People think it's hard to be a Jew but he thinks it's hard to be a non-Jew. He came to America when he was 15 years old. It doesn't matter where you are, you can be happy anywhere. 00:13:44 - Kaufman's son serving customers. Interview with Kaufman: About the generational differences between the first Hasidim who came to America and their children and grandchildren. Joking between Menachem Daum and Kaufman's son, other employees (Yiddish, Russian). 00:18:48 - Kaufman's son at work and informal interview with him (Yiddish) 00:20:29 - An employee distributes fish scraps to women waiting outside. Yaffa Fish Store delivery van and exterior of store. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-24 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Chanting of megillah (Scroll of Esther) on Purim (Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes) in a Ger shtibl (small Hasidic house of prayer). (Part 3) 2/24/1994. Celebration of Purim in the home of the Lubart family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 1) 2/25/1994. . 00:00:07 - (Partial audio) Men and boys in the Ger shtibl singing, putting away scrolls, putting on coats after finishing the reading of the megillah. Close-ups of men and Hasidic garb. Man wishes everybody a good Purim. A yahrzeit (memorial) candle donated by the Gottheil family. 00:05:07 - A charity ritual that is intended to be reminiscent of the shekels each person in Israel had to provide to the Temple for sacrifices to be made on behalf of their families in the days before the exile. Boy tries to get a reaction from an elderly man in a wheelchair by shaking his grogger (noisemaker). 00:06:47 - Grogger engraved Blessed be Mordechai. 00:07:23 - Children in costume delivering sholekhmones (food baskets given as gifts on Purim). Lubart children at home in costume preparing to go out and bring sholekhmones to their grandparents. The children explain their costumes. Mr. Lubart talks with the children about who the sholekhmones will be delivered to. 00:15:11 - The family arrives at the grandparents' home. The grandfather blesses his grandchildren. The children are told to bring out their charity boxes (pushkes). (Yiddish and some English) 00:18:41 - Audio only. Wild sound. Reading of the megillah. Explanation in English of the charity ritual at 05:07. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Bobover Hasidim celebrating Purim (Part 1) 00:00:29 - (No audio) Men and boys on bleachers and tops of book shelves in Bobov synagogue on Purim. 00:02:59 - Women and girls in women's gallery watching a Purimshpiel. Shots of performance from above. (No audio) Men and boys watching the show. 00:16:27 - (No audio) The Bobover Rebbe at his tish. The crowd davens along with him. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Bobover Hasidim Celebrating Purim, Jewish holiday celebrated in commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, when it is customary for children dress up in costumes. (Part 3). 2/25/1994 00:03:43 - (Partial audio) The tish (table) of the Bobover Rebbe. Kiddush (blessing over wine). Shots of men watching. A man slides over the table on his belly to get wine blessed by the Rebbe. Other men pour wine for themselves from the carafe. The Rebbe stands up to lead rousing singing and clapping. Crowd scenes. 00:17:27 - (Partial audio) Girls and women watching from the women's balcony. Men dancing and singing. Close-ups of people in the crowd, including boys and young men. 00:18:30 - (No audio) Stained-glass windows and exterior shots of the Bobover synagogue. 00:22:57 - (No audio) Dancing inside the Bobover synagogue and empty bleachers. Girls and women watch from the women's balcony. Men remove a festive wall hanging. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-02-25 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Bobover Hasidim celebrating Purim. ( Part 4) 2/26/1994 00:00:29 - (No audio) Men and boys on bleachers and tops of book shelves in Bobov synagogue on Purim. 00:02:59 - Women and girls in women's gallery watching a Purimshpil (skit or play or song performed on Purim, as entertainment). Shots of performance from above. (No audio) Men and boys watching the show. 00:16:27 - (No audio) The Bobover Rebbe at his tish (table). The crowd davens (prays) along with him. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Matzoh bakery, Brooklyn. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Haymish: Literally, “homey,” colloquially: Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox. Mitzvah: A commandment of Jewish law; also, a good deed. 00:17:05 - Matzoh being weighed and packed. Young man mixes and kneads flour and water. Dough being rolled out. The bakers sing as they work. Hebrew sign on wall: "Everything you do today in the business of matzoh is done in the name of the mitzvah of matzoh." 00:21:16 - More scenes of the making of matzohs. Back of shed with hats and coats hanging on wall. 00:29:19 - Audio Only. Wild Sound. Singing from around 25:50 till near end. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidim burning chometz on the eve of Passover, Borough Park (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Chometz: Leavened foods forbidden on Passover. 00:08:06 - (Partial audio) Boys, men, and a few girls burn chometz in the gutter on a busy street on the eve of Passover. 00:08:38 - Boys, men, and a few girls burn chometz in the gutter on the eve of Passover. One man takes charge and gathers neighbors, telling them to bring something to burn. A non-Jewish or secular neighbor walks by and they joke with him. Someone suggests that it would be better to burn things in a can. 00:18:27 - The group of Jews who were about to start a fire to burn chometz carries everything down the street to the corner where a fire has already been started. An additional fire is lit. It's raining so it's difficult to keep it going so they resort to lighter fluid. A man recites the blessing for burning chometz. 00:22:00 - Girl with sibling, baby in carriage, watching the fire. A prayer book rests in the carriage on the baby's lap. Close-ups of other children. 00:24:02 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidim burning chometz on the eve of Passover in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Chometz: Leavened foods forbidden on Passover. 00:00:00 - Man and young boy with prayer book saying the prayer for burning of chometz. Fire engine speeding by. Man reciting prayer as the fire is stoked. Onlookers chatting in Yiddish and English. Closeups of children. 00:05:44 - Adults and children leaving the scene of the fire after the chometz is burned. A man with a small fire in the gutter. A Hasidic boy wearing a Mets jacket. Young man putting out the fire with a hose. Close-ups of children. The scene of the fire getting cleaned up. 00:09:36 - Fire engine. A man and a boy walking down the street. The man wishes the cinematographer a good holiday. Girl with baby carriage runs to catch up with her father. Houses and porches. Girls walking down the street. Soot at the site of the fire. 00:11:07 - (Partial audio) Extinguished chometz fire and fire engine. 00:11:44 - Conversation between filmmaker Rudavsky and young boy who is upset that he is being filmed. An older boy standing nearby seems more accepting of being filmed but the younger boy stalks off in disgust. (English, Yiddish) 00:15:40 - Boisterous crowd of boys poking around in the remains of a chometz fire with long sticks. Some ask the filmmakers what they're doing. One asks if this is "a British documentary." There is shouting of "No video!" Some wave at the cameras, others shout "Get out of here!" When they hear that the film is for television they become derisive. 00:16:02 - (No audio) Street scene in Borough Park; crowds of people shopping. Signs: Moshiach [Messiah] On His Way, Yeshiva Tehila L'Dovid for boys with learning disabilities. Laser light musical spectacular featuring Moshe Ilowitz and Rabbi Yitzy Erps. Other Passover-relatd events. Car with Moshiach on His Way sign on the roof. Sign for car service that is Shomer Shabbos. Sign for Hasidic summer camp for boys. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-03-31 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic families at an amusement park during the intermediary days of Passover. (Part 2) 3/31/1994 00:06:55 - Hasidic families and other Orthodox Jews at Prospect Park Zoo on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). 00:23:53 - Audio Only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-03-31 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic families at Prospect Park Zoo. (Part 1) 3/31/1994 00:06:55 - Hasidic families and other Orthodox Jews at Prospect Park Zoo on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). 00:23:53 - Audio Only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-03-31 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Hasidic families at Prospect Park Zoo and at an amusement park during the intermediary days of Passover. (Part 2) 3/31/1994 00:00:04 - 08:10 (Partial audio) Hasidic families and other Orthodox Jews at Prospect Park Zoo on Hol hamoed (intermediary days of Passover). Other families with children. Families eating lunch. 00:15:01 - (Partial audio) Hasidic children at a pop-up amusement park. 00:27:58 - Audio Only. Wild Sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with wig stylist. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Sheitl: Wig worn by married ultra-Orthodox women to cover their hair. Yeshivish/Litvish: Non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jew. 00:00:18 - Chayele describes some advantages of wigs. Nomi remembers that it was also hard for her to get used to wearing a wig. Women who cover their hair with hats instead or shave their hair off entirely are used to it because they grew up with the custom in their community and they want to do what is considered the right thing. In response to a question she talks about some of the different clothing choices of Hasidic women, and ultra-Orthodox women like herself, who are Litvish (yeshivish) Jews. 00:06:23 - Nomi on how a wig should look natural but that you should always be able to tell it's a wig to confirm that you are a married woman. In response to a question, Nomi says that there is very little difference between the beliefs of Hasidim and yeshivish Jews, only different customs. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Moyshe Levertov, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid. 6/1/1994 00:00:01 - Interview with Moyshe Levertov (in English): About how diificult it was for Hasidic families in the USSR, especially for those who lived outside the big cities. They would try to secretly gather in Moscow (at farbrengen) for holidays, even for Shabbos. Sings a Hasidic nigun (classical melody). A memory of Lwow in 1946 on the eve of their depature. About devotion to the Rebbe. 00:03:41 - Sings the nigun (about the Rebbe). About the underground yeshiva in Samarkand and how the Rebbe obtained visas for some of its students. He himself was in a later group of emigres and missed seeing the previous Rebbe. 00:06:28 - By the time he came the previous Rebbe had passed away. About learning of the Rebbe's death. An anecdote about the KGB telling a Hasid that the Rebbe had died. About his father's personal relationship with his father. Shows a letter from the Rebbe wishing for his father's release from prison and his mother's recovery from an illness. 00:10:23 - About his first impressions of America: freedom of religion. More about Samarkand and how it was freer there than in Moscow but still not in way that could compare with America, where one can be openly Jewish. About how sukkahs were permitted here. 00:14:09 - About how dramatic the growth of Hasidism, specifically Chabad, has been since 1950. How 770 Eastern Parkway has been expanded. About how shlikhim (emissaries) have created Hasidic communities all over. 00:16:02 - About how dangerous it was to get parcels from overseas in USSR. About how later Chabad sent emissaries and material support to Jews in Russia. After glasnost, emissaries were sent to stay there on a more permanent basis. Berel Lazar was one of them. The importance of spreading Jewish knowledge and support systems in Russia where the Soviets succeeded in eradicating Jewish knowledge and practice. 00:22:00 - (Fragments of interview, mostly audio only) How people did anything they could to remain Jewish, despite hardship and how inspiring the devotion of local Jews was to Jewish observance. Other hardships for religious Jews in Russia. More about providing material aid to Jews in Russia and Chabad emissaries in Russia and about Marina Roscha Synagogue and Berel Lazar. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Moishe Levertov, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid. (Part 2) Interview with Rabbi Lubart, a Ger Hasid. (Part 1) (Yiddish) 6/1/994 00:00:06 - Interview with Moishe Levertov: About his father's arrest in the USSR in 1947 where he died in gulag. About how he and his siblings, already in the US, located his mother. 00:02:06 - About how he became a soyfer (scribe). Demonstrates how he repairs the writing in a Torah scroll. About the scarcity of mezuzahs (verses from Deuteronomy affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes), Torah scrolls in the USSR. 00:05:59 - About having to use someone else's tefillin (leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer) and tallis (prayer shawl) for his bar mitzvah. About trying to save Torah scrolls from a synagogue closed down by Soviet authorities. (Levertov continuing to work on the Torah scroll.) About how Torah scrolls are used in synagogue ritual and how a Torah scroll needs to be without defects (kosher). About how there are Torah scrolls still locked away in Russia. (Audio continues over family photographs). 00:11:32 - Moishe Levertov leaving his house, kissing the mezuzah, walking down the street, carrying his tallis bag. 00:13:33 - Interview with Rabbi Lubart: About how the differences between Hasidim and Misnagdim (traditional Jews who were opposed to Hasidism) are largely a thing of the past. About the foundations that Aaron Kotler laid that facilitated the postwar revival of Orthodox Jewish life in America. About how the institution of the kollel (institute for the fulltime study of Talmud for married men) didn't exist in prewar Eastern Europe . 00:17:24 - About how difficult it was in prewar Europe for boys to continue their studies in a yeshiva and for young men to continue their Torah studies after marriage. About Rabbi Meir Shapiro and the Yeshiva of Lublin. About his own situation as a boy in Lodz and about the lack of communal resources to support Torah study in prewar Poland. A mention of Jabotinsky. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Rabbi Lubart, a Ger Hasid. (Yiddish) (Part 2) 6/1/994 00:00:00 - Interview with Rabbi Lubart: About how Zionist leader Zev Jabotinsky came and spoke in Warsaw a few days before World War II began. About how Jewish leaders failed to fully apprehend the danger they were in and failed to unite for the sake of the community. More about the difficulties of establishing the Lublin Yeshiva and how this contrasts with the situtation for yeshivas in America and Israel today. 00:05:28 - Contrasting the economic situation for Jews in prewar -- terrible poverty, ineconomic inequality -- with the situation of Hasidim in America. More about the foundations laid by Aaron Kotler for the revival of Hasidism in America by establishing strong financial support from wealthy for Orthodox Jewish institutions. 00:11:11 - About the early days of Beth Medrash Govoha, the yeshiva established in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1942 by Aaron Kotler, as a non-Hasidic ultra-Orthox institution to facilitate continuing Torah study. About how Hasidic families were the wellspring of the revival of Orthodox Jewish life in America after the war. During the war, Shanghai became a center of Torah learning and also a paragon of Jewish unity and self-help because of the rabbis and students of the Mir Yeshiva and other Lithuanian yeshivas who found refuge there, including Rabbi Chaim Shulevitch, in contrast to the lack of Jewish unity in Poland before the war. 00:17:08 - About the importance of small synagogues set up independently in America for communal revival. About how Hasidism was deficient in organizing material relief for poor Jews in Poland before the war and how it was the rebbes who took an active role in helping their followers who succeeded in creating communities in America. 00:21:15 - More about poverty in Poland and the failure of wealthy Jews to support the Jewish community there. 00:22:42 - (Audio only) Wild sound. A bit of conversation. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lubart. (Part 5) 6/1/1994 00:00:11 - Interview with Rabbi Lubart: About Jews as second-class citizens in prewar Poland. In America, Jews have full civil rights. Government officials and candidates for political office visit Hasidic celebrations and to court the Hasidic vote. What Hasidim have achieved in America in 50 years is more than they accomplished in all the 200 previous years. America has the only humane, decent government in the entire world. (In Yiddish) 00:05:35 - Compares the lack of civil rights that African Americans had in America with the experience of Jews in prewar Poland, maintaining that Jews in Poland had it worse. 00:07:10 - Mrs. Lubart: About education of girls in Bais Yakov schools being focused on 3 values: modesty, respect, and kindness. The ultimate goal is for every woman to build a Jewish home. Example of charitable activities: her students raised $1000 for charity with a garage sale. About how women have some privileges and obligations but not others. Hasidic woman have "more than equal rights." (In English) 00:10:24 - Rabbi Lubart : an anecdote about beards, Smith Brothers cough drops, and policemen. (In Yiddish) View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lubart, Ger Hasidim. (Part 4) 6/1/1994 English and Yiddish Terms you may encounter: Bais Yaakov: Schools for Orthodox Jewish girls based on a school network founded in Poland before World War II Borukh Hashem: Blessed be God Derhaibeneh neshoma: Exhalted soul Gemara: The part of the Talmud that contains commentaries on the Mishnah, the Oral Law Khinekh: Education Misnagdic: In prewar Eastern Europe, traditional Jews who were opposed to Hasidism Rebbetzin: Wife of a rabbi Shiddukh: Match/engagement Sukkah: Hut erected for the holiday of Sukkot Torah Vodaath: Yeshiva in Brooklyn, also pronounced “Torah v’dahs” 00:00:07 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lubart. Mrs. Lubart: From a Shnobler Hasidic family. She was raised strictly religious in Chicago. Anecdote about how valued her widowed mother was in the Chicago religious Jewish community. 00:04:37 - Went to a Bais Yaakov school. Became a teacher. Became close to Rebbetzin Kaplan who came from Europe and started Bais Yaakov in America. Before that there was no formal religious education for girls. Rebbetzin Kaplan and her mentor Sarah Schenirer in Poland understood that the future of the Jewish people rested on the shoulders of the Jewish woman. 00:07:36 - More about the purpose of education for Jewish girls. Today it's even more difficult and more important to insulate our children from the immoral outside world. 00:08:54 - About how she met her husband through a brother-in-law, a fellow refugee in Shanghai. By the time they got married, there were many refugees here and yeshivas were being established. 00:10:29 - Rabbi Lubart: When he first came to America right after the war to Williamsburg, even the pious Jews were not fully taking advantage of the freedom of religion in America and were ashamed to dress Hasidic or to put up a sukkah in their own homes. He was the first on his block to have one. (Yiddish) 00:13:58 - About the declasse situation for rabbis in America before the war how that changed with the postwar arrival of Hasidic rebbes. 00:18:35 - In the misnagdic yeshiva-centered world, the ordinary person had a marginal role. Hasidism carved out a space for these Jews, leveling social distinctions, drawing thousands closer to God. 00:22:21 - (Audio only) Interview continues. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Mr. Naiman, a Ger Hasid. (Part 1) Interview with storekeeper Zeldy Abramowitz, a Satmar Hasid, in her store. (Part I) Terms you may encounter: Koysl: The Western Wall, in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism Shiva: Traditional seven-day period of mourning the death of a family member Tish: “Table,” a gathering of disciples around their rebbe Yuntef: Holiday 00:00:30 - Interview with Mr. Naiman: About the different stages for Hasidim earning a living. First generations had trouble finding a job that would let them take off for Shabbos. Poverty. The last 30 years have brought a great change, more opportunities. Thinks it's due to outreach by Hasidim. 00:04:35 - About how it's still hard for Hasidic men to earn a living, because of lack of English skills and how the Hasidic community needs to provide a better secular education. About how young Hasidic men don't know enough about running a business, financing, etc. About the risks for young women who work outside the community. 00:07:59 - About how the Hasidic community in the last few years have organized themselves to vote as a bloc and this has given them political leverage. About how now Hasidic men have jobs in city government. 00:09:50 - About Hasidic self-help, such as the Hatzolah ambulance corps, organizations that provide food for Shabbos, organizing visits to the sick, enlisting teenagers as volunteers. More shots of photos of Mr. Naiman with poltical figures, such as Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Ronald Reagan. Naiman with the Gerer Rebbe. Family pictures. 00:14:52 - (Partial audio) Inside Zeldy's clothing store: customers, woman talking on the phone to someone in Israel (in English and Yiddish). Interview with Zeldy: about girls' school uniforms she sells and compares the length of the skirts with those of Catholic schools. She discusses tsnies (modesty). How she got into her line of business and how she balances it with child care. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with storekeeper Zeldy Abramowitz, a Satmar Hasid, and her niece, Malke Klein, in Zeldy's store. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Bais Yaakov: School for Orthodox Jewish girls based on a school network founded in Poland before World War II Ainikl/ainiklekh: Grandchild/grandchildren Huppah: Wedding canopy Matsaiva: Gravestone Moshiach: Messiah Nokh a yid: Another Jew [is born] Tati: Daddy Yiddishkyt: Jewish tradition, religious practices, and culture 00:00:01 - Zeldy and her niece, Malky, with customers in her clothing store. Zeldy talks about how she reaches out to customers. She was born in Satmar, Romania and came to America as a baby. Her parents and brother were hidden during the Holocaust. Her brother was one of the few children of his generation to survive. About the difficulties her parents had in immigrating to America. About how her parents, who had been well--to-do before the war, had to adjust to a lower socio-economic status. About how they never lost their faith. 00:04:48 - About how her parents feel about their grandchildren. About how she grew up in a Holocaust survivor community where no one had grandparents. Now her children have grandparents and she sees what she missed. About the obligation she felt as a child to make her parents happy. She and Malky talk about how they always felt "guilty." About the toll the Holocaust took on their parents. 00:08:57 - A customer tells the filmmaker that she thanks God for school uniforms. Interaction with customers. 00:10:39 - Zeldy and Malky about how they knew no old people when they were growing up and about how some adults had first wives and children who perished in the Holocaust. 00:12:18 - Scenes in the clothing store. Interview with Zeldy: About how her parents told them, as Jews, never to feel secure, and that they are "different." About how her parents had a hard time realizing that America is a free country. About how there is more antisemitism here than before. About how she knew about "the sixties" but she didn't get drawn in. Malky and Zeldy talk more about fear of antisemitism in their families and the roots of that fear in personal experience. 00:17:42 - Customers in the store. Uniforms on the racks. Zeldy talks about the different schools and their uniforms. 00:19:43 - Interview with Zeldy: About a conversation with a doctor who identiifed her as Satmar based on her personality. About how it isn't unusual for Satmar women to work outside the home and that it isn't frowned upon or forbidden. About how she still has strong ties with girls she went to school with. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with storekeeper Zeldy Abramowitz, a Satmar Hasid, in her store. (Part 3) 00:00:05 - Interview with Zeldy: About the different roles for men and women but how women are not subservient to men. About how Hasidic girls want to get married and have children. About how much more important a legacy children are then "running Westinghouse." About how happy she is and how she doesn't feel how she is giving anything up. She and Malky deal with the customer. 00:03:54 - About how outsiders stereotype Hasidim. About how Hasidic women have equal input in decision-making for the family and are respected by their husbands. About how family life, community, is the best part of being a Hasidic woman. About how the rules of modesty don't bother her. About how her one experience of watching television shocked her. 00:07:51 - (No audio) Customers in the store. 00:08:38 - Interview with Zeldy: About how when she had to go to Boston for medical community, she was taken care of by an organization run by the Bostoner Rebbe. About how there are always some people in any community who are unhappy. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-12-03 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Pearl Gluck, who grew up Hasidic in Borough Park. (Part 1) 12/3/1995 00:00:21 - Interview with Pearl Gluck: About her early awareness of the Holocaust. Comes from a family of Holocaust survivors. Meaning of the Holocaust for Hasidim. How Hasidim today is modeled on interwar Hasidic life in Europe. About how Hasidim today, though, have different capabilities because of being American. Her family is Hungarian Hasidic. 00:05:43 - About how some Jews became more Hasidic in America than they had been back in Europe. About how she thinks Hasidim are becoming more American, more open to the outside world, more materialistic. About use of new technology, such as video, in Hasidic life. 00:08:35 - About how she went from going to a Hasidic school to a Modern Orthodox school. About teaching about Hasidim to non-Hasidim and about stereotypes of Hasidim. 00:11:30 - About the importance of storytelling in Hasidism. A story about the Kalever Rebbe and a shepherd's song that became a favorite Hasidic tune. Sings song (in Hungarian). 00:14:30 - About how the loss of Hasidism would be a loss to Jewish tradition. About how many Hasidic women are happy and have their own realm. About how she did feel deprived as a girl but how a feeling of validation grows as girls get older. 00:16:45 - About the relationship of Hasidic women and the Rebbe and Rebbetzin and the status of the Rebbetzin (rabbi's wife). 00:17:49 - About how Hasidim are no more racist than other communities but do have a sense of superior spirituality. 00:19:36 - About how she goes back to Borough Park regularly and has a relationship with her family but doesn't bring her "whole self" with her. 00:20:51 - Misses the sense of spiritual certainty, community, family, a sense of place, and other things from the Hasidic world she grew up in. About how her family increasingly accepts her as she is now. 00:22:33 - (Audio only) About stereotypes of Hasidim. About how Hasidim want to be insular. Analogy to Roma. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-12-03 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Pearl Gluck, who left Hasidism. (Part 2) 12/3/1995 00:00:17 - Interview with Pearl Gluck: Her bookshelf. 00:00:58 - About her education at the girls' school Bais Yaakov emphasizing modesty in dress and behavior, preparation for motherhood. Yiddish as the language of instruction. Time was allotted for secular education. 00:06:57 - About the beautiful aspects of Hasidic education for girls. There was an emphasis on building boundaries for behavior. More about the dress code for women and a sartorial rebellion on her part and other incidents of rebellion on the part of some students. About her curiosity about non-Hasidic life. 00:11:28 - About outlets for women to express creativity, about recreational activities. About her dissatisfaction with the boundaries and limits. About her process of breaking away. 00:12:52 - More about her process of breaking away and her relationship with her family. About friends who have left Hasidism but who then returned to it. About being brought up to believe that you are a member of the spiritual elite. About how higher education for women is not encouraged and how within Hasidism she didn't feel she had an "intellectual voice." About why Hasidic life is compelling and attractive for so many. 00:18:10 - About the positive aspects of Hasidic life, including a sense of safety, a support system. About her struggles after leaving the community. About the pluses and minuses of life on the outside. About her relationship with her family. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-12-03 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Pearl Gluck, who grew up Hasidic in Borough Park (Part 3). Man on the street interviews in Borough Park. 12/3/1995 00:00:03 - Family photos. 00:01:18 - (No audio) Pearl Gluck walking in Washington Square. 00:04:49 - Girls with American flags exiting Beit Malkah (Queen's Palace). Sign: "Worldwide Belz Welcomes Vice President Al Gore." 00:05:08 - Pearl Gluck walking on the street in Borough Park. Other passersby, some who greet her. Pearl outside the Bais Yaakov school. 00:07:15 - Pearl outside the Bais Yaakov school, where she went to school. Interview: About how the school gave a more acculturated education than boys were getting, including creative arts. 00:09:02 - Pearl Gluck walking on the street in Borough Park. 00:10:09 - Interview with Pearl Gluck on the street in Borough Park: About Hasidic dress as an expression of modesty, including men's garb. Sexuality considered a beautiful, but very private and spiritual matter. (Audio only) Interview continues. Both men and women's dress codes are strict, not only women's. 00:12:50 - (Audio only) Unidentified man: About growing up in Borough Park and not understanding why Hasidic children wouldn't play with him. It's the same now for his kids. He doesn't know why they keep aloof except that it has something to do with their religion. Claims that Jews get preferential treatment when it comes to emergency medical attention and that they've "taken over the 66th police precinct." Hasidic children respect adults and the rabbis but not non-Jewish adults. They have different pricing in the stores based on whether you're Jewish or not. 00:17:53 - (Audio only) Unidentified man: About how Orthodox Jews have beaten up Black people. 00:18:48 - (Audio only) Unidentified woman: She doesn't know much about Hasidim but they're okay - good people. Another (Russian) woman: They're nice neighbors, likes seeing how Hasidic men interact with their children. 00:21:40 - (Audio only) Interview with Pearl Gluck: She was taught American history in school. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1993-11 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's class at the (Ger) Yeshiva Yagdil Torah in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Children playing at recess. (Part 3) 11/9/1993. Hasidim watching the New York City Marathon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 11/14/1993. 00:00:52 - Young boy reading from primer: consonants and vowels, prompted by teacher Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz and other students for one letter. The teacher points out to class that everyone makes a mistake sometimes, even him. (Yiddish/English) 00:03:56 - (Partial audio) A boy sent out to another class for grape juice says they don't have it. Teacher admonishes some boys for acting up. "We don't say things like that." Children line up to get chocolates provided by the Rebbe. Grape juice is finally brought and each boy gets a cup. One by one they recite Boreh pri hagofen (blessing over wine). (Yiddish) 00:11:50 - Each child contributes a penny to a robot piggy bank. The coins are transferred to a charity can (pushke). (Yiddish/English) 00:16:04 - After the snack break, the teacher and children return to the primer, recite aloud the vowel sound "oy" and then find examples of the sound in combination with different consonants: oy, boy, goy. They continue to chant other combinations of consonant and the vowel sound "oy." (Yiddish) 00:19:24 - Courtyard. Children leaving the building for recess. Boys boisterously crowd in front of the camera, clowning around. Children playing in the street near school buses. Others play on monkey bars and rocking horses. 00:17:28 - (No audio) Children and primers. 00:42:26 - (No audio) New York City Marathon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Hasidim (men, women, children, families) walking on street or watching from sidewalks. Other non-Hasidic spectators. Non-Hasidic elderly women with twin babies in a stroller. Quiet side street. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's class at Yeshiva Yagdil Torah. A lesson on Passover. (Part 2) Interview with wig stylist. (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Chometz: Leavened foods forbidden on Passover. Sheitl: Wig worn by married ultra-Orthodox women to cover their hair. 00:00:01 - Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz teaches his class at Yeshiva Yagdil Torah about preparations for Passover and how they must check their homes for chometz, even between the pages of books. They all check the supply closet for chometz. Boys take turns holding the lighted candle that is part of the ritual of checking for chometz. (Yiddish with a little English) 00:17:31 - Nomi refurbishing sheitls (wig) in a kitchen as a toddler in highchair looks on. She explains what she is doing and that married women must cover their natural hair. Some women wear wigs like she does. Nomi is styling the sheitl for Chayele, who says she has sheitls in a variety of styles. She's lucky and can afford good wigs; others can't. (Nomi and Chayele are Litvish/yeshivish ultra-Orthodox Jews and not Hasidim.) View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-05-13 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Kosher pizza parlor. (Part 2) Moishe and Chips Gold, Belzer Hasidim, and their children preparing for Shabbos. (Part 1) 5/13/1994 Terms you may encounter: Shiddukh: Match, betrothal. 00:00:06 - Hasidic businessman Mendel, working alongside his non-Jewish employees, making pizza, serving customers, in his pizza parlor. Interviewed as he works: How the rebbe helps everyone with their day to day problems. Explains (in Yiddish) the presence of the film crew to a curious customer. 00:07:43 - Exterior, Mendel's Pizza and Luncheonette. 00:08:58 - Sign for lecture about shiduchim. 00:09:11 - (Partial audio begins at about 10) Chips Gold and children preparing for Shabbos, bringing flowers and potted plants into the house. Boys making potato kugel. Chips making kishke, tsholent, challah. Hebrew sign on door: "Gold Family." 00:18:30 - Interview with Chips' daughter: About how her job before Shabbos is to vacuum , bake cakes, and glaze the challahs. Explains that Shabbos is a day of rest and socializing and that they always have many guests at their table, including singles that her mother is trying to match. About what she does for fun when she has free time. Expects to marry a Hasidic boy. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1905-06-16 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Upshern ceremony (ritual marking a boy's first haircut) for a son of the Naiman family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 2) 8/13/1994 Kosher pizza parlor (Part 1) 5/13/1994 Terms you may encounter: Benbayis: Unofficial member of a household, family. G'makh: Free loan fund. Haymish: Literally, “homey,” colloquially: Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox. Shiddukh: Match, betrothal. Yuntef: Holiday. 00:00:00 - (No audio) Ger Yeshiva Yagdil Torah: schoolbus, exterior of building. Neiman boy who had his upshern arrives with family for his ceremonial introduction to schooling. 00:01:02 - (No audio) Gold family (?): Father and sons leaving house. Candles in a window. 00:03:21 - (No audio until 8:40) Neiman boy enters Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's classroom. First lesson in reading alef-bais (alphabet): candies placed on the letters as his brother and family look on. Afterwards distributes candy and cake to all the boys. (Yiddish) 00:14:33 - The boy puts a coin for charity into a robotic piggy bank (pushke) and he and his family leave. 00:16:46 - Interview with Mendel, Hasidic owner of kosher pizza parlor. The free loan society and loans from relatives and his rebbe helped him establish the business. About losing his father as a child and being brought up by the Tosher Rebbe, who also arranged his marriage. Customers at tables. Ads for Mrs. Weiser's Blintzes and Haderech taxi company. Other signs. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-06-01 Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. School buses picking up Hasidic children to bring them to school. Interview with Moishe Levertov, a Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasid. (Part 1) 6/1/1994 00:00:05 - Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion school bus picking up a child. Girls in school uniform. Beys Esther Sandz and Klausenberg school bus with girls. Schoolbus: Bais Yaakov of Pupa. School bus of yeshiva of Vishnitz Hasidim.Other street scenes in Borough Park with focus on children going to school. "Moshiach " (Messiah) signs on cars, doors. 00:10:06 - Rabbi Moishe Levertov, a scribe, at work. 00:10:47 - Family photo. 00:11:17 - Interview with Moishe Levertov: About being smuggled out of the USSR with other Lubavitcher boys and eventually coming to the U.S. 00:13:27 - About how his father remained defiantly Jewish even in USSR. Was a knitter doing piecework. Secretly was also the only mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow. Secret circumcisions (brises) in the USSR in the 1920s-1930s. 00:18:29 - About how he and his brother didn't go to school. About how in the synagogue on Saturdays people would be missing because they'd been arrested. How synagogues were closed down in 1938 (?). 00:21:08 - About how the authorities ripped up the Torah scrolls and gave them to shoemakers. 00:22:29 - Audio only. Wild sound. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz, a teacher in the Ger Yeshiva Yagdil Torah. (Part 3) Interview with Mr. Naiman, a Ger Hasid (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Tsitses: Tassels worn on traditional garments by Jewish males as reminders of the commandments of Deuteronomy 22:12 and Numbers 15:37–41 Upshern: Ritual marking a boy's first haircut 00:00:55 - Interview with Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz: About how the main language of most of his students is English and why they teach in Yiddish in the yeshiva. About how his students are a cohort who will have a connection with each other all their lives. Another way of forging continuity. 00:04:26 - About the role of storytelling in teaching values to children, such as the importance of not stealing, telling the truth, being thankful. 00:08:08 - About how rewarding it is to get an invitation to the wedding of a former student. About the professionalization of teachers in the yeshiva and the growing respect for teachers. About the title of the teacher: "Rebbe." 00:10:43 - Naiman family photos. Photos of Mr. Naiman with New York City political figures, such as Ed Koch and Al D'Amato. 00:11:59 - Interview with Mr. Naiman: About why Ger Hasidism is important to him as a second generation Holocaust survivor and why the revival of Ger, the largest Polish Hasidic community, is a response to the Holocaust. 00:13:38 - Interview with Mr. Naiman: About why Ger Hasidism is important to him as a second generation Holocaust survivor and why the revival of Ger, the largest Polish Hasidic community, is a response to the Holocaust. (Another take) 00:14:46 - About the importance of educating children as early as possible. About the upshern ritual. 00:16:41 - About the importance of the Ger yeshiva, where his sons are students. About how Hasidic education begins with warmth and the children are eager to go to school and how this is a basis for the rest of their lives. 00:18:25 - About how his girls go to a Bais Yaakov school and how the school gives them education and also social interaction, but within the community and not in the outside world. About how the yeshiva children are proud Americans and proud New Yorkers and that the Hasidic children are exemplars. About how his children know that America took his parents in after World War II. 00:22:00 - About the upshern ritual as a happy occasion. 00:23:14 - Audio only. Wild sound. A bit more from the interview with Rabbi Berkowitz: about modesty and empathy: having "a good eye." View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Contributing Institution: Brooklyn College Library Description: Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Wedding of the Bobov Rebbe's granddaughter in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Part 3) Interview with Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz, a teacher in the Ger Yeshiva Yagdil Torah. (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Khinekh: Education Modeh Ani: “I offer thanks to You”;The first words of the first prayer one says before getting out of bed Shaneh toyve: “Have a good year,” Rosh Hashana greeting Shofar: Ram’s horn blown during Rosh Hashana and at the end of Yom Kippur Yuntef: Holiday 00:00:00 - (No audio) Women dancing with the bride in the center of a circle of dancers. Girls and women: a variety of sheitl (wig) and hat styles. 00:01:14 - (Partial audio) Men and boys dancing . Wedding entertainment: boys and their dance-master in costume dance. Crowds of men and boys watch. 00:04:05 - The Bobover Rebbe gives a speech. (Yiddish) Women watch from the women's gallery. 00:05:17 - The Bobover Rebbe dances a ceremonial dance with his granddaughter, the bride, to a nigun sung by the hundreds of men present. The groom is brought out and the Rebbe dances with him. The Rebbe dances in a circle with the groom and other men. 00:10:43 - Interview with Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Berkowitz, a teacher in the Ger yeshiva. About his main goal: that boys will enjoy coming to yeshiva. About he starts each new year by playing with his students and eases them into being able to sit and learn. They learn about the High Holidays. 00:15:11 - About how excited the children were to meet the Rebbe. About how the children look forward to their first trip to Jerusalem to see "where it all began" and the Rebbe. About how they build on this excitement year after year and their sense of the Rebbe as a father figure. 00:18:34 - About how in the years after the war there was less caring by the Rebbe for the children then there is today . About how each child is an individual with individual needs. About how teaching is more professional now. The emphasis is on happiness as a prerequisite for learning. 00:21:04 - About how most of the children in the yeshiva as grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are very different from his own generation, the children of survivors. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library