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Creator: Palmer, Earl F. Date: 2023 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: Topic: Called to be a People of the Gospel and See also the accompanying document ( https://commons.ptsem.edu/?pdf=EPM-1822) View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Palmer, Earl F., Palmer, Jon, and Whatley, Tony Date: 2023 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: Topic: Called to be a People of the Gospel and See also the accompanying document ( https://commons.ptsem.edu/?pdf=EPM-1822) View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Palmer, Earl F., Sundberg, Renee, Triller, Daniel, Medina, John, and Sunoo, Ken Date: 2023 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: Topic: Called to be a People of the Gospel and See also the accompanying document ( https://commons.ptsem.edu/?pdf=EPM-1822) View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Creator: Palmer, Earl F. Date: 2022 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: Topic: George Frideric Handel’s Messiah View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
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 Date: 1994-11-03 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. Diamond district in Manhattan. Street scenes in Williamsburg. 11/23/1994 00:00:30 - (No audio) Street scenes on West 47th Street, in Manhattan's diamond district. Passersby, including some Hasidim. Men and a few women. 00:12:09 - Inside a Hasidic grocery store. Street scenes in Williamsburg. Yeshiva school buses. Girls in school uniform. 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 Date: 1995-02-16 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. Interview with scholar Yaffa Eliach. (Part 1) 2/16/1995 00:00:14 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About the Ba'al Shem Tov and the birth of Hasidism. The Besht, as a revolutionary and a mystic. About his close relationship to his wife and daughter. About an emphasis on joy in life. 00:08:40 - About the book In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov as the source of most information about him. 00:10:28 - About the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism (Jews who were opposed to Hasidism) as exemplified by the Baal Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon. About Hasidism as an anti-establishment movement. About the ex-communication of the Hasidic community. 00:14:42 - About messianism in Hasidism. About Chabad (Lubavitcher) messianism. 00:18:02 - About Hasidism as a challenge to the social hierarchy and to Jewish institutions. But it replaced it with its own social hierarchy and institutions. A gate-opener to dissent within the Jewish community. 00:20:32 - About the Enlightenment as a challenge to Hasidism and Misnagdism. 00:22:44 - (Audio Only) More about the Ba'al Shem Tov, messianism, the conflict between Hasidism and Misnagdism, on emotionalism vs. scholarship, about the influence of Hasidic thought on her ability to carry out scholarship on the Holocaust, about her first exposure to Hasidim and Hasidism, about the Satmar Rebbe's interpretation of the Holocaust. 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 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 scholar Arthur Hertzberg. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Daven: Pray. Minhah: Daily afternoon liturgy. Minyan: The quorum of ten men required for communal worship in traditional Judaism Tallis: Prayer shawl Tish: “Table,” a gathering of disciples around their rebbe 00:00:02 - Interview with Arthur Hertzberg: About how the Hasidim chose their way of life at the expense of denying their children the full range of opportunities offered by America. About Hasidic rejection of new technology, mass media. 00:04:33 - A Hasidic story about the Kotsker Rebbe. 00:05:24 - About how it is hard for Hasidim to move away from changing communities as individuals. About how it is normal in the history of religion for there to be friction between a sect and members of other persuasions. A story about Hungarian Hasidim and refugees during World War I. 00:09:37 - About how Hasidim believe that their devotion to God will bring them a place in "the world to come." 00:11:09 - About how Hasidim enjoy the security of a life with meaning, role models, community. America itself is looking for meaning. On the role of the Rebbe as opposed to Jewish leaders of other denominations. About the tension between being Jewish and being American. About the tension between Judaism and relativism. 00:15:24 - About a contract his grandfather made with his wife: he would learn (study Talmud)and she would earn a living, in exchange for half of his place in the world to come. About how he didn't remain Hasidic largely because he received a Western education. 00:18:20 - About how when he goes to Hasidic events he is both a participant and an observer, both inside and outside. A story about worshiping in the Belzer Rebbe's yeshiva. 00:20:46 - About lineage as providing status within Hasidism. About how outsiders see Hasidic women. 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 scholar Arthur Hertzberg. (Part 1) 00:00:06 - Interview with Arthur Hertzberg: Ancedotes and stories about the idea of America as a "treyfeh medina." About his relative, the Munkacs Rebbe, holding this view. About the reaction of his family when they were reunited with his father, a Belzer Hasid, at Ellis Island. 00:06:05 - There was no real Hasidic presence in America until World War II. 00:07:16 - About how previously most Jews who came to America accepted the idea of Americanization. Examples: Young Israel, Yeshiva University. An example from his hometown Baltimore. Immigrants came as individuals, not as communities. 00:10:03 - About how the Satmar and Lubavitch Rebbes came with remnants of their communities. 00:10:59 - About the differences between pre-World War II Jewish immigration and the immigration of Jews after the war. They came seeking religious freedom. About how they transformed American Orthodox Judaism and shifted it to the right. 00:14:12 - Compares American Hasidim to the Mayflower pilgrims, to the Amish. Hasidim as "urban Puritans." About Hasidim having a different immigration narrative than Jews descending from earlier waves of Jewish immigrants. 00:16:55 - About Hasidim not considering themselves as Americans, but as living in America. They belong to Hasidism, as the Pope belongs to Catholicism. The differences between the way Hasidim consider themselves Americans and how non-Hasidic Jews consider themselves Americans. 00:20:01 - More examples of how Hasidim haven't Americanized. About Haisidim in Brooklyn delivering a bloc vote. 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 scholar Arthur Hertzberg. (Part 3) Terms you may encounter: Kaddish: Prayer praising God; in this case, the Mourner’s Kaddish, recited as part of the ritual of mourning Musaf: Additional morning service on the Sabbath and on festival Shaharit: Daily morning liturgy Shoykhet: Ritual slaughterer Yahrzeit: The anniversary of the death of a parent or near relative, also pronounced yortsyt 00:00:02 - About how Hasidim feel an obligation to reproduce a community that was almost wiped out in the Holocaust. About how outsiders see Hasidic women and about how differently Hasidic women view their own lives. About how Hasidic women do have power. About how women are protected by the structure of the community. About Hasidic women and secular education and how they are also receiving more religious education than they used to. 00:05:30 - About attrition in the Hasidic community. About the future of Hasidic community as an enclave. About how American Judaism is still grappling with the legacy of emancipation and about how the future of secular Israeli identity is also cloudy. A story about different contemporaneous Jewish takes on Napoleon in Russia. 00:10:19 - (Audio only from about 11:00) About Hasidic interpretations of the Holocaust. A story about the Belzer Rebbe. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-02-16 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. Interview with scholar Yaffa Eliach. (Part 3) 2/16/1995 00:00:29 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About the influence of Hasidism and "Hasidic energy" on, for instance, the Zionist movement. 00:02:09 - About Hasidism before the Holocaust as an established movement which had lost its fervor to change the world. About how Hasidic positivism gave some people the strength to withstand the Holocaust. 00:06:02 - About her roots as a member of a non-Hasidic family. About her commitment to teach the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims rather than from that of the perpetrators. About how her work on the Holocaust has been influenced by Hasidic belief in light, goodness, humanity. 00:11:43 - About the Holocaust as a challenge to faith. About how the revival of Hasidic courts in America after the war gave some survivors a sense of continuity. About how Hasidim have continued to group themselves according to geographic origin. 00:14:32 - About the important role of rebbes in the rehabilitation of survivors after the war and how this explains why Hasidism flourished after the war in America but not before the war. 00:17:28 - About the differences between early Hasidism and the Hasidism of today, which is tradtionalist and not innovative, more materialistic. About how expensive glatt kosher meat is. 00:20:31 - (Audio drops out here.) View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-02-16 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. Interview with scholar Yaffa Eliach. (Part 4) 2/16/1995 00:00:57 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About whether Hasidism will survive in America. Economic outlook: new technologies, substandard education, new generations receive less secular education than previous generations. About women within Hasidism who face a lack of economic opportunity. 00:04:46 - About how the home is no longer a base of power for women, unlike the way it was traditionally in Jewish history. About large Jewish families leading to poverty. 00:06:41 - About career counseling Hasidic women students at Brooklyn College who are increasingly driven to earn a living for their families. 00:08:23 - About Hasidic pride in maintaining their distinctiveness. About the underground network of Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasidism in the USSR in the face of persecution. About Chabad as different from other Hasidic groups in wanting to be very visible. 00:12:03 - About self-help in the Hasidic community and even generosity toward outsiders. About beginnings of the Hatzolah ambulance corps in Williamsburg. 00:14:10 - About gender segregation in self-help activities providing a role for women. About the rebbetsin, the wife of the Satmar Rebbe, as a role model. 00:15:45 - About Hasidism in the American tradition of religious sects, according to a model established in colonial times. Hasidim as a voting bloc. Examples of how Hasidim are participants in American life. 00:19:30 - About how Hasidic Holocaust survivors deeply appreciate American freedom but the younger generations take it for granted. About how each Hasidic group thinks its rebbe is the truest heir of the Ba'al Shem Tov (Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidism, also known as “Besht”). About mainstream Jewish attitudes toward Hasidim. 00:23:22 - Audio Only. Continuation of interview. About how Chabad takes advantage of modern media. About how Polish Hasidim were more open to the outside world than Satmar Hasidim. About how more Hungarian Hasidim survived the Holocaust than Polish Hasidim. About how the Satmar Rebbe set the tone for American Hasidim. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-02-16 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. Interview with scholar Yaffa Eliach. (Part 2) 2/16/1995 00:00:29 - Interview with Yaffa Eliach: About the influence of Hasidism and "Hasidic energy" on, for instance, the Zionist movement. 00:02:09 - About Hasidism before the Holocaust as an established movement which had lost its fervor to change the world. About how Hasidic positivism gave some people the strength to withstand the Holocaust. 00:06:02 - About her roots as a member of a non-Hasidic family. About her commitment to teach the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims rather than from that of the perpetrators. About how her work on the Holocaust has been influenced by Hasidic belief in light, goodness, humanity. 00:11:43 - About the Holocaust as a challenge to faith. About how the revival of Hasidic courts in America after the war gave some survivors a sense of continuity. About how Hasidim have continued to group themselves according to geographic origin. 00:14:32 - About the important role of rebbes in the rehabilitation of survivors after the war and how this explains why Hasidism flourished after the war in America but not before the war. 00:17:28 - About the differences between early Hasidism and the Hasidism of today, which is traditionalist and not innovative, more materialistic. About how expensive glatt kosher meat is. 00:20:31 - (Audio drops out here.) 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 scholar David Fishman. (Part 2) 00:00:22 - Interview with David Fishman: About how the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee secretly funded the underground Lubavitcher network in the USSR. About how Schneersohn encouraged young Jews to learn home-based crafts. 00:04:10 - About how Lubavitcher Hasidim believe in a metaphysical struggle between light and darkness. There must be Torah wherever there are Jews. This is the motivation for Chabad's present day missionary work in Russia. 00:05:39 - (No audio from here) 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 scholar David Fishman. (Part 1) Terms you may encounter: Khaider: Traditional Jewish elementary school 00:01:01 - Interview with David Fishman: About the USSR as an atheist state and how anti-religious laws were enacted when the Bolsheviks came to power. About anti-religious propaganda in Yiddish. Staged theatrical trials against the traditional Jewish religious school. About persecution of people who opposed this propaganda. Major riot against it in Vitebsk. Public show trials against rabbis. 00:07:08 - About the variety of Jewish identities that existed on the eve of the revolution. The revolution dramatically accelerated a process of secularization. 00:09:51 - About how circumcisions were illegal but how it was widespread to have illegal circumcisions. Even Party members arranged secret brisses for their sons. 00:11:41 - About efforts at resistance but the reaction was so brutal that Orthodox Jewish life couldn't withstand it. Some left, e.g., moved yeshivas to Poland. The only major Hasidic leader to stay was the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who established underground network of synagogues, schools, yeshivas, largely through the efforts of a "youth" movement. 00:17:46 - About Lubavitch (Chabad) becoming the dominant force in Judaism in USSR. (Audio only) Interview continues. More about show trials of rabbis. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-01-16 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. Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi about Hasidism. (Part 2) 1/16/1995. 00:00:57 - Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: About the relationship between Hasidim and their rebbes. 00:02:13 - About how Hasidism is bigger than the lives of individuals. About Hasidic dress preserving Hasidic identity and varying between the different groups of Hasidim. Hasidic cupport systems, such as ambulance corps. 00:04:01 - About how Hasidism in Europe was not urban but centered in different towns around the courts of their rebbes. Hasidim outside New York are different than New York Hasidim, like the Twersky Hasidim in Milwaukee who are more open to the outside world. 00:05:50 - About the isolation of Hasidim in minority neighborhoods from their neighbors. Both minorities feel oppressed by mainstream culture. Crown Heights: some promising developments in breaking down this isolation. 00:07:01 - About the ways in which he still feels himself to be Hasidic. Wore Hasidic garb when he met the Dalai Lama. About the continuing need for Hasidic masters. 00:10:04 - Sings song in English. 00:11:12 - About a Hasidic master who was a woman: "the Maiden of Ludmir." (Audio only) Today there are also women capable of "soul teaching" and women masters will arise in the 21st century. Feminine aspects of Hasidism, e.g., the shekhina (the feminine aspect of God). Sings song in English about the shekhina. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1995-01-16 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. Interview with Zalman Schachter Shlomi. (Part 1) 1/16/1995. 00:00:36 - Interview with Zalman Schachter Shlomi: Attempts a definition of Hasidism. About the founder of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov, in the context of religious revival and reform going on around the world in his lifetime. About the intimacy between master teacher/Rebbe and Hasidim/devotees. About their religious fervor. 00:04:42 - About childhood in Austria and meeting Yosef Yitzchak Shneersohn, the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe, while a refugee in France, and becoming his devotee. 00:04:42 - About people are looking for a spiritual connection now and about how Hasidism provides an entry for this. Anecdote about seeing a tree glowing after prayer. 00:07:44 - About the opposition to the mysticism of Hasidism on the part of rationalists now and in the past. About how some are focused on restoring and others, like him, on renewal and looking forward to the next century. 00:10:23 - New scientific discoveries are corroborating the teachings of the Kabbalah. 00:11:31 - About Hasidism providing renewal in the aftermath of the Chmielnicki Uprising and the Holocaust. About Hasidism, including Hasidic garb, providing a sense of continuity, community, ecstasy in prayer, dance. The downside is insularity and no involvement in ecology, racial justice, feminism. But there are still points of connection. Example: vegetarianism, Hasidic rock. 00:14:57 - About Hasidic garb as inimical to the world at large. "And it's really true. The two of them don't get along so well." 00:16:16 - About the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his father-in-law, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe as his mentors and having a larger vision than other Hasidim. About how other Hasidic groups didn't like Chabad's proselytization. 00:17:57 - About Hasidic tales, nigunim (traditional melodies), and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. A story about the Ba'al Shem Tov and Yom Kippur and shepherd's flute. A story about Reb Zushe reminiscent of St. Francis of Assisi. 00:20:55 - About theology vs. immediate experience. About experiencing the oneness of God through the mediation of a Rebbe. 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 scholar Samuel Heilman. (Part 3) Fragment of home movie of the Gold family, ca. 1960s. 00:00:06 - Interview with Samuel Heilman: About why Hasidim have many children and the importance of children for Hasidism. An anecdote about the importance, for the Bobover Rebbe, of the enthusiasm of young boys. About how Hasidim have created an entire world for their children. 00:04:12 - Anecdote about B & H Photo, a Satmar Hasidic-owned business, used to illustrate how making a living puts Hasidim in contact with American culture. About the dilemmas that Hasidim face when working outside the community. 00:07:34 - About why the Hasidic way of life is expensive: large families, kosher food, parochial school, high housing costs, need to give to charity. About how many work within the Jewish community. About yeshiva students getting food stamps, Pell grants. 00:11:14 - About Hasidic ways of marriage, sex, and love as particularly distinctive of Hasidism. Marriage as a contract within the community. About how young people are given sex education right before marriage. 00:16:12 - About Hasidim's relationship with their neighbors related to their living in the "inner city." They are in the neighborhood and not of the neighborhood. Aloof from African-Americans no more than aloof from other Americans. Hasidim seen as privileged and snobbish. 00:19:45 - About how the fall of the Soviet Union has made pilgrimages to the places of their origin and to the graves of their rebbes possible. Also a way of demonstrating to local people that they have survived. 00:22:41 - Fragment of a home movie of the Gold family (ca. 1950s-1960s). Mr. Jack Gold and two of his children. 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 scholar Samuel Heilman (Part 2) 00:00:37 - Interview with Samuel Heilman: About Hasidim having no choice after World War II but to come to America, a treyfe medina. About how he himself, an Orthodox Jew, grew up not wearing his yarmulke on the street. 00:03:27 - About a synergy between the rise of the rebbes and the communities coalescing around them being responsible for the growth of Hasidic communities. 00:05:05 - About Hasidim's realization that America was very different than Europe. Brooklyn not originally a center of Hasidism. In the 1960s, changing sexual mores, rise of youth culture, violence strengthened Hasidim's decision to create an enclave. A counter-culture of Haredi Judaism as a response. This also the case for other fundamentalists: Western civilization as a toxin. Television as a window bringing in an alien culture. A decision not to Americanize. Yiddish as a way of creating a barrier. 00:11:54 - More about how the Hasidim viewed the outside world as an existential threat. Outward manifestations of Hasidim became important, e.g., beards. In Nazi times, outward signs of Hasidim were the opposite: placed you in danger. Hasidim were Holocaust survivors, but also survivors of assimilation. About Hasidim seen as "authentic" Jews. The resurrection of Belz, Ger as nostalgic. Modern Orthodoxy as a threat. 00:17:59 - Hasidim are in America but not of America. Modern Orthodox Jews are in America and of America. An ongoing debate. The university perceived as a locus of particular danger. 00:21:07 - About ambivalence of other Jews toward Hasidim: authentic but abhorrent. Anecdote about stereotype about Hasidim smelling bad. 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 scholar Samuel Heilman. (Part 1) 00:00:03 - Interview with Samuel Heilman: About a renewed Hasidic presence in Eastern Europe, especially by Chabad (Lubavitcher) Hasidim, who had maintained an underground religious network in the USSR. 00:02:22 - About Hasidim who leave Hasidism and what they gain and what they give up. 00:06:32 - About what will happen with the next generation of Hasidim and the differences between their experiences and those of their parents. 00:09:11 - About the centrality of the rebbe in a Hasidic community. An anecdote about the Gerer Rebbe. 00:11:10 - About how non-Hasidim view Hasidic rebbes. About how the rebbes conceive of their role and responsibilities. About how some dynasties haven't survived because sons aren't willing to take on "the hardest job in the world." 00:13:28 - About the separation of genders within the Hasidic world. About the concern that libido is capable of shredding the fabric of society. About how there has been Americanization in this aspect of Hasidic life. About women who work outside the community. 00:16:49 - About how the Hasidim are affected by the surrounding culture and may not realize the ways in which they have Americanized. An anecdote about the differences between American and Israeli Hasidim. About the Hasidim as a voting bloc. A love-hate relationship with America. The use of English. A test of American multiculturalism. 00:20:39 - About generational differences in the view of America. About the confidence of the younger generation and their willingness to be visible. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1996-11-03 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 scholar Ann Braude. 11/30/1996 About the inequality of women within Hasidism as a contradiction of their important roles as mothers and transmitters of value to the next generation. But within Hasidism their roles as mothers are affirmed in a way that doesn’t happen in the outside world. Women are getting something out of this. But that’s the only role they are allowed to have. 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 Martin Marty (2) 00:00:30 - Interview with Martin Marty: About Hasidim as "good Americans." 00:02:21 - About the "fragility" of tolerance and how fundamentalists are a test of it. 00:05:15 - About how Hasidism is more threatening to mainstream Jews than to non-Jews. 00:06:32 - Comparison of the Hasidim to the Amish. 00:08:16 - About the negotiations fundamentalists make with modernity and how Hasidim need to be careful stewards of their culture and tradition while making some compromises. 00:11:19 - About how Americans are currently engaged in a spiritual search and exploring traditional sources. 00:13:37 - About how sects and other non-mainstream religious movements have always been present in America. About how Hasidism is in some sense part of the zeitgeist. About how those who see the price as too high will leave Hasidism. 00:16:44 - About the differences between being born into a tradition and joining as a convert. Discusses Catholicism. 00:20:16 - About his own ambivalent feelings about people and structures that are highly disciplined and how it is similar to how he feels about fundamentalist movements. Attraction and repulsion. 00:21:52 - About how Hasidic stories are the stories that continue to be passed on. 00:22:31 - Audio only. Continuation of interview . A story of the Ba'al Shem Tov (Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidism, also known as “Besht”). 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 scholar Martin Marty. (Part I) 00:00:00 - Interview with Martin Marty: About religious revival in general in America. About America as a place known both as a religious and godless place. About the appeal of the wisdom of the past. 00:04:16 - About how religious sects have influenced America at large and how Hasidism has influenced mainstream Judaism. 00:06:50 - About Hasidim as moral exemplars, as a "clearing in the woods," from whom others can learn. 00:08:46 - Hasidim as "witnesses." The same movements "attract and repel." 00:11:09 - Hasidim remind us that most religious striving has been communal, not lonely and individualistic. 00:15:19 - Fundamentalism is very much at home in the modern world. About the misconceptions of rationalists. Some comparisons with Christian fundamentalist groups. 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 Bobover Rebbe's granddaughter in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Part 2) 00:00:39 - (Partial audio) The bride circles the groom seven times as per the ritual. The ceremony commences. The groom stamps on a glass. The Bobover Rebbe and others congratulate the newly married pair and the Bobover Rebbe gives his blessings to the couple and to those gathered (in Yiddish). 00:04:30 - (Partial audio) Festive music. The Rebbe and bride and groom descend from the platform. Shots of women and girls in the crowd. 00:09:15 - A woman helping two girls fix their hair. 00:09:26 - The groom poses for his wedding portraits. The groom's feet, clad in black slippers and white stockings. The bride and groom pose for their wedding portraits. Children watch. 00:16:07 - Women dancing with the bride in the center of a circle of dancers. Girls and women: a variety of shaytl and hat styles. 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 Bobover Rebbe's granddaughter in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Part 1) 00:00:12 - Police barriers outside the Bobov synagogue on the day of the wedding of the Bobover Rebbe's granddaughter. Hasidim arriving for the wedding or passing by on the street. 00:01:28 - (Partial audio) The bride and her mother, future mother-in-law, grandmothers, and other female relatives take their seats on a dais and are surrounded by well-wishers. Festive music plays. Arrival of the flower girl. Hasidic man plays a keyboard. 00:08:08 - Others arriving for the wedding. the outdoor stage. Hasidic boys talking to New York City police. Police barriers. The Bobover Rebbe (?) and his entourage arrive. 00:10:56 - The Bobover Rebbe arrives to congratulate his granddaughter. He veils the bride and wishes her "mazel tov." The bride is led from the room. A Hasidic man with a walkie talkie supervises. 00:14:04 - (Partial audio) Outside the synagogue: crowds gathered for the wedding. The groom is led to the stage and huppah (wedding canopy). Man davening (praying). The Bobover Rebbe arrives. 00:18:12 - The bride and her entourage arrive and ascend to the huppah. She circles the groom seven times as per the ritual. 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. Home movie of Hasidim at an upshern (ritual marking a boy's first haircut), ca. 1960s. [This footage was acquired for the documentary] 00:00:57 - (No audio) Home movie of unidentified Hasidim with their rebbe at an upshern in a synagogue, ca. early 1960s. Festive table. Women on their side of the room. Boys and men clapping and singing. 00:04:27 - (No audio) Additional footage of same event. Close-ups of some clean-shaven men. Men dancing near the ark to accompaniment of accordion. Little boy's hair is cut. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-08-13 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. Upshern ceremony (ritual marking a boy's first haircut) for a son of the Naiman family, Ger Hasidim. (Part 1) 8/13/1994 00:00:05 - (No audio) Neiman family: A boy getting his head shaved except for peyos (side curls worn by ultra-Orthodox men). 00:01:02 - A boy getting his upshern (first haircut). Guests gathered for the festive occasion. Relatives take turns for the honor of helping with the haircut. He reacts to the sight of his first tales kotn and yarmulke with delight. (Yiddish, some English) 00:09:24 - A yarmulke is placed on the boy's head. His older brother helps his little brother put on his first tsitses (tassels worn on traditional garments by Jewish males as reminders of the commandments of Deuteronomy 22:12 and Numbers 15:37–41). The younger boy says the blessing for putting on tsitses. 00:11:01 - He is wished mazel tov by his grandfather, Rabbi Lubart, and other relatives, shakes hands with cousins and siblings , and gives out bags of candy as his mother tries to find a yarmulke that will stay on his head. 00:20:17 - The boy is wrapped in a tallis (prayer shawl) and driven to the yeshiva. 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: 1994-01 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. Mayer Schiller, a Skverer Hasid who grew up as a secular Jew but decided to become Hasidic, coaching the hockey team of Yeshiva University High School for Boys, where he is a teacher. (Part 2) 1/11/1994 00:00:02 - Mayer Schiller coaches the Yeshiva University High School for Boys' hockey team before a game and the team goes out on the ice. Hockey game. 00:08:29 - Schiller coaches the hockey team in the locker room before game. Hockey game. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-01 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 Mayer Schiller, a Skverer Hasid, who grew up as a secular Jew but chose to become Hasidic. (Part 3) 1/13/1994. Schiller coaching the hockey team of Yeshiva University High School for Boys, where he is a teacher. (Part 1) 1/11/1994 00:00:00 - Interview with Mayer Schiller: Prayer takes work. American society could learn a lot from the Hasidic world as a functioning society rooted in tradition and faith. To live this way you have to "abjure the realm." 00:03:21 - About gender roles in Hasidic society. A woman pursuing a career would interfere with her role as a mother and homemaker. Most Hasidic women content with their roles but some women who have now been corrupted by the outside world and are angry. 00:06:21 - About feminism as a horrible and decadent thing taken serious only by white Europeans as they destroy their own civilization. 00:07:20 - About normative Hasidism's view of Lubavitcher Hasidim. Formerly tolerant but now more critical because of Chabad's messianic fervor. 00:09:14 - About Hasidism encouraging a sense of humility balanced by awareness that we are loved and valued by God with whom we need to have a personal relationship. Importance of faith and trust in God. 00:11:09 - About how the documentary will be flawed because the pious elite is not going to talk to the filmmakers; nor will the most pious Hasidic women. 00:12:38 - About what Hasidim get out of being Hasidim and what they give up. 00:14:03 - About Yiddish as a Hasidic language: a cultural barrier but also a richly textured expression of a particular way of looking at the world. 00:15:13 - About the differences between his upbringing and the upbringing he is giving his children. 00:17:00 - Yeshiva University High School for Boys hockey team in the locker room at a game. Mayer Schiller. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-01-13 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. Interview with Mayer Schiller, a Skverer Hasid, who grew up as a secular Jew but chose to become Hasidic. (Part 1) 1/13/1994. Terms you might encounter in this footage: Ba’al Shem Tov (Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidism, also known as “Besht.”) Yeshivish/Litvish: Non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jew. 00:00:10 - Interview with Mayer Schiller: About how he grew up in a non-Hasidic, non-religious American Jewish family. Was always interested in Judaism. Visited Hasidim in New Square as an experiment. Left public school and attended yeshiva. 00:07:18 - About growing up in Brooklyn in a liberal/left secular Jewish family and being interested in sports. 00:10:56 - About entering Yeshiva Samson Raphael Hirsch, a German Orthodox Jewish yeshiva. Then, Bais Shraga, a non-Hasidic Lithuanian "yeshivish" yeshiva. Finally accepted into New Square (Skverer Hasidic) yeshiva in 1968. 00:13:26 - About adapting to Hasidic rhythms of life and codes of behavior, long hours of study and prayer. Mother accepting of his becoming a Hasid. 00:15:45 - About assuming Hasidic garb as a powerful religious experience. The passion of the convert. Hasidism an example of traditional world: emphasis on the communal. Secular world: modern and emphasis on the individual. 00:18:23 - About how most Americans are brainwashed against traditionalist values and religion.. American culture, focused on the material as opposed to the intrinsic, is not sustainable. View Full Item at Brooklyn College Library -
Creator: Daum, Menachem and Oren Rudavsky Date: 1994-01-13 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. Interview with Mayer Schiller, a Skverer Hasid, who grew up as a secular Jew but chose to become Hasidic. (Part 2) 1/13/1994. 00:00:04 - Interview with Mayer Schiller: About how and why Hasidim succeeded in bucking the trend of immigrants to acculturate. America unraveling since the 1960s. The tension between a pluralist democracy enabling insular communities to flourish and the survival of those communities depending on not practicing pluralism. 00:03:38 - About how relativism and dissent inimical to Hasidism or any orthodox community. In Hasidism, this is reinforced by the authority of the rebbe. About his reverence for the preceding Skverer Rebbe. About how succession of new rebbes always difficult but it has taken place successfully in America. 00:07:32 - About the differences between poverty of Hasidim in pre-World War II Europe and in America and how this affects Hasidic life today. The largest Hasidic families of all time and the economic problems that causes. 00:09:57 - He teaches Talmud at Yeshiva University high school for boys, a Modern Orthodox school. Cultural differences between Hasidism and Modern Orthodoxy. 00:11:15 - About how he is inspired by the teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov to view his students as worthy of having a spiritual relationship with God. 00:12:51 - Is a hockey coach for the Yeshiva University high school students. About how Hasidim see sports as non-Jewish and alien. How he has sought to balance his dedication to serving God with his own spiritual need for sports. 00:14:49 - Tries to imbue the teaching of Talmud with joy. Hasidism emphasizes prayer as imbued with both joy and seriousness. Hasidim draw sustenance from specific moments of inspiration. He gets his inspiration from Shabbos and holidays. 00:19:58 - His students' "spiritual antennae have been cut by modernity." 00:21:03 - To ask whether Hasidim are good Americans is irrelevant at a moment when most Americans are not good Americans. American have lost a sense of patriotism and duty. 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 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 the mother of Mayer Schiller, who became a Skverer Hasid. (Part 2) Terms you may encounter: Gabbai: An official of a synagogue Learn: In this context, study Talmud 00:00:06 - Interview with Mayer Schiller's mother: About her son's motivations for being Hasidic. About Mayer's Reform and Conservative Jewish childhood and early interest in his "Jewishness." Her feelings about Hasidim and how they have evolved. 00:03:38 - About her close relationship with her son and her acceptance of his Hasidism and his acceptance of her more secular life-style. About her relationship with her grandchildren and great-grandchild. 00:06:56 - About how Mayer was eventually accepted in New Square, learning in the yeshiva there, and how he began to dress in Hasidic garb. About how reluctant he was to go to Hebrew School as a child. "The last time he rode on Shabbos was on his bar mitzvah." 00:13:33 - Shows pictures of Mayer as a child, in his pre-Hasidic days and his early days as a Hasid and talks more about Mayer as a child. About her grandchildren and great-grandson. 00:19:30 - About Mayer starting to want to be known by his Hebrew name and not his American name (Craig). About what she thinks of the future of Hasidism. About her concerns about some developments in society at large and how there needs to be some limitations on human behavior. 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