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Interview with Mayer Schiller (1)
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Interview with Mayer Schiller (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194807.APA citation style
(1994). Interview with Mayer Schiller (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194807.Chicago citation style
Interview with Mayer Schiller (1). Daum, Menachem. 1994. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194807.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- 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.
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